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Mattel manufactures and markets toy products that are sold to its wholesale partners and direct to retail customers. The company offers products for children and families, including toys for infants and preschoolers, girls and boys, youth electronics, hand-held and other games, puzzles, educational toys, media-driven products, and plush and fashion-related toys. Mattel's owned portfolio includes Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, and American Girl. In addition, it currently manufactures toy products for its segments both internally and externally (through manufacturing partners). Nearly 60% of its net sales were generated from North America in 2025, with the remainder stemming from international markets.
Mattel trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol MAT.
As of May 12, 2026, MAT stock price climbed to $15.25 with 3,604,450 million shares trading.
MAT has a beta of 1.69, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. MAT has a correlation of 0.27 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MAT has a market cap of $4.61 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter Mattel reported $862 million in Revenue and -$.20 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $55 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.
In the last 3 years, MAT traded as high as $22.64 and as low as $13.95.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that MAT belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, VBR, VXF.
MAT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -11.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +32.0%. In the last 3 month period, MAT fell short of the market, returning -3.5%, while SPY returned +6.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MAT has outperformed the stock market by returning +3.6%, while SPY returned +3.2%.
MAT support price is $14.68 and resistance is $15.30 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MAT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
