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MATX vs RCL

Side-by-side comparison of Matson Inc. (MATX) and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both MATX and RCL operate in Marine Transportation (Consumer Discretionary), so they compete in similar markets.
  • RCL is the larger of the two at $71.30B, about 13.6x MATX ($5.25B).
  • Over the past year, MATX is up 61.4% and RCL is up 22.8% - MATX leads by 38.6 points.
  • RCL has been more active in the news (6 items in the past 4 weeks vs 3 for MATX).
  • RCL has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 9 for MATX).
PerformanceMATX+61.40%RCL+22.81%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricMATXRCL
Company
Matson Inc.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Price
$172.15+0.97%
$265.88+2.04%
Market cap
$5.25B
$71.30B
1M return
+5.15%
-4.71%
1Y return
+61.40%
+22.81%
Industry
Marine Transportation
Marine Transportation
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
1993
News (4w)
3
6
Recent ratings
9
25
MATX

Matson Inc.

Matson, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides ocean transportation and logistics services. The company's Ocean Transportation segment offers ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam, as well as to other island economies in Micronesia. It primarily transports dry containers of mixed commodities, refrigerated commodities, packaged foods and beverages, building materials, automobiles, and household goods; livestock; seafood; general sustenance cargo; and garments, footwear, e-commerce, and other retail merchandise. This segment also operates an expedited service from China to Long Beach, California, and various islands in the South Pacific, as well as Okinawa, Japan; and provides container stevedoring, refrigerated cargo services, inland transportation, container equipment maintenance, and other terminal services to ocean carriers on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, as well as in the Alaska locations of Anchorage, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor. In addition, the company offers vessel management and container transshipment services. Its Logistics segment provides multimodal transportation brokerage services, including domestic and international rail intermodal, long-haul and regional highway trucking, specialized hauling, flat-bed and project, less-than-truckload, and expedited freight services; less-than-container load consolidation and freight forwarding services; warehousing and distribution services; supply chain management services, and non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) freight forwarding services. The company serves the U.S. military, freight forwarders, retailers, consumer goods, automobile manufacturers, and other customers. The company was formerly known as Alexander & Baldwin Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Matson, Inc. in June 2012. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.

RCL

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Royal Caribbean Group operates as a cruise company worldwide. The company operates cruises under the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Azamara, and Silversea Cruises brands, which comprise a range of itineraries that call on approximately 1,000 destinations. As of December 31, 2020, it operated 61 ships with an aggregate capacity of approximately 137,930 berths. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

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