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Matador Resources Company

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 28% YoY at strong margins2 insiders buyingQuiet on X (20 mentions/wk)
$MTDR·$7.1B·Oil & Gas Exploration & Production·Energy
$56.81-1.5%YTD+36.1%1Y+20.0%
Price updated 10h ago·X counts updated 5d ago
MTMTDR
$MTDRMatador Resources Company
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The complete picture of $MTDR on X — how loud the conversation is right now, how it has trended over the last two weeks, and which way the crowd is leaning.

20X posts · last 7 days
Sep 1Sep 14

AI verdictAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

TickerTalks' own read on what's driving $MTDR — fundamentals, momentum, or an event — and whether it agrees with the X crowd.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-09-19

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

$7B Permian-focused E&P with actual insider open-market buying on top of a strong Q2 and the Paloma acquisition — one of the cleaner energy setups on this list.

Matador Resources is running a textbook Permian playbook: acquire adjacent acreage, drop the cost base, put cash back into buybacks and a dividend.

  • Q2 was a genuine beat — EPS $2.61 versus $2.08 estimate (+25.5%) on $1.19B revenue against a $1.06B consensus, driven by the Ameredev integration and improving well performance.
  • Insider open-market buys in late August are the tell: CEO Joseph Foran bought 555 shares at ~$54.49, and EVP Christopher Calvert bought 2,500 shares at $56.64 (~$141,600) — small in dollar terms but pure conviction signals, not comp grants.
  • The Paloma Permian acquisition (July 22 announcement, purchase agreement filed) adds Delaware Basin acreage; the leadership reshuffle (Van Singleton II retiring to Special Advisor, Bryan Erman as Co-President, Jonathan Filbert on land/M&A) telegraphs an M&A-forward posture.
  • Tape confirms the fundamentals: YTD +36%, one-year +20%, position 0.66 of the 52-week range, holding above both 50-day and 200-day moving averages — the analyst forecast of FY26 EPS $7.89 growing to $8.45 by FY27 is now consistent with the beat cadence.

Commodity-price sensitivity remains the risk that no operational execution can fix.

On the calendar: Q3 earnings 2026-10-27

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Permian Basin-focused independent E&P with growing midstream operations in the Delaware Basin, targeting oil and natural gas growth.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Oil & Gas Exploration & Production sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $MTDR.

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production · Energy

Crude oil above $100 following Houthi seizure of a Red Sea port is the immediate geopolitical supply driver — WTI and Brent held bullish breakouts with analysts flagging value in beaten-down E&P names. LNG export demand is the secular tailwind for Appalachian gas producers; Permian consolidation is rationalizing costs and lifting FCF conversion.

What this means for $MTDR

Direct beneficiary — Matador's Delaware Basin concentration with integrated midstream generates strong per-well economics at $100 WTI; midstream fee income provides margin stability independent of oil price volatility.

Industry benchmark

27-name peer basket
+50.1%YTD
+40.4%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
8.1How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
10.1%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
36.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
17.0%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
1.5Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
12.8%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
104%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.4Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 5, 2026$2.61$2.08+25.5%
Q1 2026May 6, 2026$1.53$1.24+23.4%
Q4 2025Feb 24, 2026$0.87$0.71+22.5%
Q3 2025Oct 21, 2025$1.36$1.22+11.5%
Next earningsTue, Oct 27·consensus EPS $1.80

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q2 FY26$1.2B+28.2%91.0%48.7%$3.15$937.1M
Q1 FY26$941.6M-6.4%47.1%33.6%$-0.29$11.8M
Q4 FY25$848.0M-13.3%258%25.0%$1.55$-113.6M
Q3 FY25$915.1M+6.4%35.1%33.4%$1.42$158.5M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 5 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$4.1B$3.7B – $4.4B$7.89$6.60 – $10.155
FY27$4.7B$3.7B – $5.4B$8.45$6.60 – $9.955
FY28$4.8B$4.2B – $5.1B$8.26$6.87 – $10.165
FY29$4.8B$4.1B – $5.3B$8.62$6.96 – $9.782
FY30$4.9B$4.2B – $5.4B$9.74$7.86 – $11.042

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.2×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.66%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+4.0%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+8.0%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 115.1M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today2.0% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.795-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

BuyAug 27Christopher P CalvertCFO2.5K sh$142KBuyAug 26Joseph Wm ForanCEO555 sh$30KBuyAug 17Joseph Wm ForanCEO400 sh$21KBuyAug 13Joseph Wm ForanCEO5.0K sh$257KBuyAug 12Joseph Wm ForanCEO10.0K sh$522KBuyAug 11Joseph Wm ForanCEO709 sh$37KBuyAug 10Elsener William ThomasEVP, Reservoir Engineering850 sh$43KBuyAug 10Joseph Wm ForanCEO3.1K sh$160KBuyJun 15Baty Robert GainesDirector500 sh$26KBuyJun 9Joseph Wm ForanCEO2.0K sh$106K
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+ 12 other (9 awards · 1 gift · 1 exempt · 1 inkind) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KOfficer or director changeSep 108-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

Matador Resources disclosed that Van Singleton II, Executive VP, retired to a Special Advisor role with a $450,000 annual advisory fee. Bryan Erman takes the Co-President title and Jonathan Filbert assumes land and M&A responsibilities. The transition represents an orderly leadership evolution at Matador as it scales its Permian Basin operations, with the Singleton advisory arrangement preserving institutional knowledge.

8-KPress release / Reg FDAug 58-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Matador Resources Company filed its Q2 2026 earnings 8-K on August 5, 2026, reporting financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. The filing also includes a Reg FD disclosure (Item 7.01) for an updated investor presentation. Matador is an independent E&P company focused on the Permian Basin Delaware sub-basin, listed on NYSE. No headline production or financial figures appear in the excerpt; the full results and updated guidance are in the attached exhibits. This is a routine quarterly earnings and investor presentation disclosure for a mid-cap Permian producer.

8-KMaterial agreementJul 248-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Matador Resources' subsidiaries MRC Ranger LLC (Purchaser) and MRC Energy Company (guarantor) entered into the Paloma Purchase Agreement on July 22, 2026 with Paloma Permian Holdings LLC and Paloma Permian Intermediate LLC (Sellers) to acquire all membership interests of Paloma Permian LLC, a private Permian Basin operator. A Reg FD press release accompanied the announcement. No purchase price is disclosed in the filing excerpt. This is a transformative Permian Basin bolt-on acquisition for Matador — purchasing an entire private E&P adds production and reserves, with the financial impact and accretion/dilution dependent on the purchase price disclosed in the full press release.

8-KPress release / Reg FDJul 228-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Matador Resources Company declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock on July 22, 2026, pursuant to the Board's dividend policy adopted in October 2025. The specific dividend amount is in the attached press release (Exhibit 99.1); future dividends remain at Board discretion, subject to operating results, cash flows, capital requirements, and legal and regulatory factors. This is a routine Reg FD dividend declaration confirming the company's capital return program is ongoing, providing income investors with the declared amount ahead of formal payment dates.

8-KMaterial agreementJun 168-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Matador Resources (MTDR), through subsidiary MRC Energy Company, entered into an Eighth Amendment to its Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement on June 10, 2026, reaffirming the borrowing base at $3.25 billion and increasing aggregate elected borrowing commitments from $2.25 billion to $2.75 billion; this also constituted the regularly scheduled May 1 redetermination. Matador also held its 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 11, 2026, discussing recent BLM lease sale acquisitions, natural gas marketing, operational efficiencies, and midstream business growth. Matador Resources is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Permian Basin and Mid-Continent regions. The credit facility increase provides additional liquidity to fund ongoing development drilling.

8-KPress release / Reg FDMay 68-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KOfficer or director changeApr 278-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KPress release / Reg FDApr 228-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
+ 9 other (3 proxys · 2 10-Qs · 2 13Gs · 1 SD) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

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