Masco Corporation
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $73.25, Masco Corporation (MAS) is priced for +4.1% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 27, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
Masco is a mature, high-margin home-products compounder, not a growth story. The price embeds only about 4.7% operating-income growth, which is the right lens for a steady cash generator with a 16.6% operating margin. The business is tilted to repair-and-remodel, not new construction. Roughly 84% of plumbing sales and all of paint sales go to R&R, which dampens the swings from housing starts and showed up in a Q1 2026 print of plumbing sales up 9%. The capital return is the shareholder engine.
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806 institutional managers reported holding MAS in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 94% of the company; the top 10 hold 44%. 81 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 10.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (4.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MAS has cut its share count 19% over the past five years, spending $3.07B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 12 years straight; the current rate is $1.24 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $708.00M in dividends and $1.80B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at MAS over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MAS's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -0.6% | -12.7% |
| 2023-10-27 | +5.6% | +31.2% |
| 2024-02-09 | +3.1% | +1.3% |
| 2024-04-25 | -4.3% | -5.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MAS's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-14 (items 5.03, 5.07); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-21 (items 5.02); 2026-03-26 (items 1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 27, 2026
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