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Fair value pending

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Market cap

6.6B

NYSE

Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E18.9

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E22.9

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE22.8

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC18.1

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All MSA market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

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Showing 274 of 274 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000066570
Company name	MSA Safety Incorporated
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	553498106
Employees	5,300
Employees Change	100%
Employees Change Percent	1.92
Enterprise value	$7B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Security & Protection Services
Isin	US5534981064
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$6.6B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$170
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	361,718.11x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	3842
Symbol	MSA
Website	https://www.msasafety.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	4.43%
EV Earnings	24.23x
EV Sales Forward	3.52x
EV/EBIT	16.16x
EV/EBITDA	14.17x
EV/FCF	22.74x
EV/Sales	3.67x
FCF yield	4.72%
Forward P/E	18.89x
P/B ratio	4.87x
P/E ratio	22.93x
P/S ratio	3.42x
PE Ratio10 Y	70.06x
PE Ratio3 Y	85.83x
PE Ratio5 Y	99.45x
PS Forward	3.28x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	22.71%
EBITDA Margin	25.91%
FCF margin	16.14%
Gross margin	46.8%
Gross Profit	$897.3M
Gross Profit Growth	4.54%
Gross Profit Growth Q	13.54%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	7.99%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	9.39%
Net Income	$290.5M
Net Income Growth	1.45%
Net Income Growth Q	19.57%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth5 Y	20%
Pretax Margin	19.9%
Profit Margin	15.16%
Profit Per Employee	$54,816
Profitable Years	35
ROA	11.34
Roa5y	9.82
ROCE	19.08
ROE	22.83
Roe5y	15.69
ROIC	18.05
Roic5y	17.1

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	15.15%
Cagr15y	12.65%
Cagr1y	10.45%
Cagr20y	9.48%
Cagr3y	9.48%
Cagr5y	1.77%
Div CAGR10	5.14%
Div CAGR3	4.81%
Div CAGR5	4.25%
EPS Growth	2.22
EPS Growth Q	21.19
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth5 Y	20.15
FCF Growth	22.04%
FCF Growth Q	27.53%
FCF Growth5 Y	10.64%
OCF Growth	22.89%
OCF Growth Q	22.41%
OCF Growth10 Y	20.02%
OCF Growth5 Y	9.63%
Revenue Growth	5.56x
Revenue Growth Q	10.04x
Revenue Growth Quarters	6x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	6.31x
Revenue Growth5 Y	7.82x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.8
Assets	$2.6B
Cash	$180.2M
Current Assets	$891.7M
Current Liabilities	$281.3M
Debt	$658.3M
Debt EBITDA	$1.28
Debt Equity	$0.49
Debt FCF	$2.13
Equity	$1.4B
Interest Coverage	13.33
Liabilities	$1.2B
Long Term Assets	$1.7B
Long Term Liabilities	$927.4M
Net Cash	$-478.2M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-7.29
Net Debt EBITDA	$0.96
Net Debt Equity	$0.35
Net Debt FCF	$1.55
Tangible Book Value	$332.4M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$8.58
WACC	9.03

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	3.17
Inventory Turnover	3.1
Net Working Capital	$438.3M
Quick ratio	1.8
Working Capital	$610.4M
Working Capital Turnover	$3.33

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	0.77%
Dividend Growth	3.4%
Dividend Growth Years	56%
Dividend per share	$2.12
Dividend Years	56
Dividend Yield	1.25%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-15
Last Dividend	$0.54
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	28.74%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	309.67%
1Y total return	10.44%
200-day SMA	172.1
3Y total return	31.22%
50-day SMA	173.6
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	9.15%
All Time High	208.9
All Time High Change	-18.66%
All Time High Date	2026-02-12
All Time Low	3.5
All Time Low Change	4,755.43%
All Time Low Date	1988-02-17
ATR	5.04
Beta	0.97
Beta1y	0.59
Beta2y	0.93
Ch YTD	6.12
High	173.6
High52	208.9
High52 Date	2026-02-12
High52ch	-18.66%
Low	169.2
Low52	151.1
Low52 Date	2025-11-03
Low52ch	12.47%
Ma50ch	-2.1%
Premarket Change Percent	0
Premarket Price	$172
Price vs 200-day SMA	-1.26%
RSI	49.3
RSI Monthly	51.04
RSI Weekly	47.36
Sharpe ratio	0.37x
Sortino ratio	0.79
Total Return	2.02%
Tr YTD	6.4
Tr15y	497.28%
Tr1m	2.52%
Tr1w	2.5%
Tr3m	-11.78%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	4
Analyst Count Top	2
Analyst Price Target Top	$188
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Hold
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.83
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	8.93
Earnings Revenue Estimate	451,214,400x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	7.09x
Operating Income	$435.5M
Operating Income Growth	3.21
Operating Income Growth Q	14.51
Operating Income Growth3 Y	10.16
Operating Income Growth5 Y	13.29
Operating margin	22.71
Price target	$198
Price Target Change	$16.51
Price Target Change Top	$10.33

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	36,197,278%
Float Percent	93.77%
Net Borrowing	108,540,000
Shares Insiders	6.16%
Shares Institutions	91.03%
Shares Out	38,604,089
Shares Qo Q	-0.67%
Shares Yo Y	-0.77%
Short Float	2.51%
Short Ratio	4.01
Short Shares	2.35

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$293.1M
Average Volume	268,590.35x
Bv Per Share	34.9
CAPEX	$-68.2M
Ch10y	254
Ch15y	347.6
Ch1m	2.52
Ch1w	2.5
Ch1y	9.08
Ch20y	295.2
Ch3m	-12.01
Ch3y	26.64
Ch5y	2.69
Ch6m	6.91
Change	-1.14%
Change From Open	-2.12
Close	171.9
Days Gap	1
Depreciation Amortization	61,292,000
Dollar Volume	37,625,735.6
Earnings Date	2026-05-04
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$435.5M
EBITDA	$496.8M
EPS	$7.41
F Score	5
FCF	$309.5M
FCF EV Yield	4.4x
FCF Per Share	$8.02
Financing CF	-107,076,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,914
Goodwill	727,440,000
Graham Number	76.28997
Graham Upside	-55.11
Income Tax	$90.9M
Investing CF	-257,421,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-04
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	2004-01-29
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-12
Lynch Fair Value	$148
Lynch Upside	-12.77
Ma150	172
Ma150ch	-1.17%
Ma20	169.5
Ma20ch	0.25%
Net CF	10,040,000
Open	173.6
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	21.2
P OCF Ratio	17.37
Payment Date	2026-06-10
Position In Range	16.17
Ppne	334,493,000
Pre Close	171.9
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$13.21
Ptbv Ratio	19.74
Relative Volume	0.82x
Revenue	1,917,106,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.85x
Share Based Comp	16,380,000
Tax By Revenue	4.74x
Tax Rate	23.82%
Tr20y	511.31%
Tr6m	7.55%
Us State	Pennsylvania
Volume	221,406
Z Score	5.74

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Forward P/E

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Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Research pending

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Income

MSA dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.2%

$2.12 annual per share

Payout ratio

+28.7%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+4.2%

56 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+2.0%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-15

Performance

MSA stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns MSA?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+91.0%

Float: +93.8% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+6.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

MSA momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

49.3

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-1.3%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.97

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

0.37

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

MSA vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
ADP	Automatic Data Processing Inc.	85.1B	19.9x	3.9x	55.3%	+8.1%	-28.5%	Hold
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	Sell
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	Sell

Questions

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