Trading a MATW straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Matthews International Corp without committing to a direction. Matthews International Corp's straddle involves buying (or selling) a call and a put at the same strike and expiration, profiting when the stock moves more (or less) than the combined premium implies. Use our scanner to evaluate MATW straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on MATW profits from large moves in either direction and is a classic play into binary events like earnings, product announcements, or macro releases. A short straddle profits when Matthews International Corp stays range-bound and implied volatility contracts. The breakeven points are simple: strike plus total premium on the upside, strike minus total premium on the downside. Comparing the MATW straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Matthews International Corporation provides brand solutions, memorialization products, and industrial technologies worldwide. It operates through three segments: SGK Brand Solutions, Memorialization, and Industrial Technologies. The SGK Brand solutions segment provides brand management, pre-media services, printing plates and cylinders, engineered products, imaging services, digital asset management, merchandising display systems, and marketing and design services for the consumer goods and retail industries. The Memorialization segment provides bronze and granite memorials, upright granite memorials and monuments, cremation memorialization products, granite benches, flower vases, crypt plates and letters, cremation urns, niche units, cemetery features, and statues, as well as caskets, and cremation and incineration equipment for the cemetery and funeral home industries.
The Industrial Technologies segment provides marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation products, and order fulfillment systems for identifying, tracking, picking, and conveying consumer and industrial products for the warehousing and industrial industries. Matthews International Corporation was founded in 1850 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the MATW straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every MATW straddle against historical realized moves, flags expirations where the market is overpaying or underpaying for vol, and ranks setups by breakeven width and IV rank. Whether you're long a MATW straddle into a catalyst or short a MATW straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
