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Fair value pending

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Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

5.8B

NYSE

Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price

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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/E22.4

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E28

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE15

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC12.7

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All MSM 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 275 of 275 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

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

Metric	Value
Cik	0001003078
Company name	MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	553530106
Employees	7,000
Enterprise value	$6.3B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Industrial Distribution
IPO Date	1995-12-20
Isin	US5535301064
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$5.8B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$104
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	547,539.71x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	5084
Symbol	MSM
Website	https://www.mscdirect.com

Valuation

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

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.57%
EV Earnings	30.5x
EV Sales Forward	1.54x
EV/EBIT	19.56x
EV/EBITDA	15.08x
EV/FCF	29.47x
EV/Sales	1.65x
FCF yield	3.69%
Forward P/E	22.44x
P/B ratio	4.21x
P/E ratio	28.03x
P/S ratio	1.52x
PE Ratio10 Y	18.24x
PE Ratio3 Y	19.97x
PE Ratio5 Y	18.8x
PS Forward	1.41x

Profitability

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

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	8.45%
EBITDA Margin	10.96%
FCF margin	5.61%
Gross margin	40.78%
Gross Profit	$1.6B
Gross Profit Growth	1.86%
Gross Profit Growth Q	3.38%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-1.47%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	3.54%
Net Income	$207.7M
Net Income Growth	-2.65%
Net Income Growth Q	8.06%
Net Income Growth Quarters	3%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-17.08%
Net Income Growth5 Y	2.15%
Pretax Margin	7.17%
Profit Margin	5.42%
Profit Per Employee	$29,668
Profitable Years	33
ROA	8.24
Roa5y	9.98
ROCE	18.59
ROE	15
Roe5y	20.08
ROIC	12.72
Roic5y	15.27

Growth

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

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	8.09%
Cagr15y	6.71%
Cagr1y	44.72%
Cagr20y	7%
Cagr3y	8.89%
Cagr5y	6.14%
Div CAGR10	7.43%
Div CAGR3	3.51%
Div CAGR5	-11.85%
EPS Growth	-2.15
EPS Growth Q	8.57
EPS Growth Quarters	3
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-16.92
EPS Growth5 Y	2.2
FCF Growth	-28.7%
FCF Growth Q	196.14%
FCF Growth3 Y	-26.18%
FCF Growth5 Y	-7.57%
OCF Growth	-26.02%
OCF Growth Q	73.32%
OCF Growth10 Y	-2.43%
OCF Growth3 Y	-20.75%
OCF Growth5 Y	-3.5%
Revenue Growth	2.16x
Revenue Growth Q	2.92x
Revenue Growth Quarters	3x
Revenue Growth Years	0x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-0.58x
Revenue Growth5 Y	4.14x

Financial strength

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

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.56
Assets	$2.5B
Cash	$46.2M
Current Assets	$1.2B
Current Liabilities	$709M
Debt	$558.7M
Debt EBITDA	$1.24
Debt Equity	$0.4
Debt FCF	$2.6
Equity	$1.4B
Interest Coverage	14.22
Liabilities	$1.1B
Long Term Assets	$1.2B
Long Term Liabilities	$356.6M
Net Cash	$-512.5M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-8.8
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.22
Net Debt Equity	$0.37
Net Debt FCF	$2.38
Tangible Book Value	$581.3M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$10.41
WACC	8.22

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	1.73
Inventory Turnover	3.43
Net Working Capital	$813.2M
Quick ratio	0.59
Working Capital	$520.7M
Working Capital Turnover	$7.02

Dividends and buybacks

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

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	0.43%
Dividend Growth	2.37%
Dividend Growth Years	4%
Dividend per share	$3.48
Dividend Years	24
Dividend Yield	3.34%
Ex Div Date	2026-04-08
Last Dividend	$0.87
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	93%

Performance and technicals

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

Metric	Value
10Y total return	117.62%
1Y total return	44.68%
200-day SMA	89.68
3Y total return	29.13%
50-day SMA	94.55
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	34.7%
All Time High	106.5
All Time High Change	-2.12%
All Time High Date	2026-05-07
All Time Low	7.5
All Time Low Change	1,290.4%
All Time Low Date	1999-10-19
ATR	2.81
Beta	0.81
Beta1y	0.73
Beta2y	0.81
Ch YTD	24
High	106.4
High52	106.5
High52 Date	2026-05-07
High52ch	-2.12%
Low	103.4
Low52	75.37
Low52 Date	2025-05-09
Low52ch	38.36%
Ma50ch	10.29%
Price vs 200-day SMA	16.28%
RSI	65.77
RSI Monthly	63.13
RSI Weekly	68.84
Sharpe ratio	1.34x
Sortino ratio	2.59
Total Return	3.77%
Tr YTD	26.5
Tr15y	164.72%
Tr1m	16.07%
Tr1w	1.61%
Tr3m	10.18%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	6
Analyst Count Top	2
Analyst Price Target Top	$106
Analyst Ratings	Hold
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.26
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	16.67
Earnings Revenue Estimate	1,031,851,432x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	6.25x
Operating Income	$323.8M
Operating Income Growth	-5.98
Operating Income Growth Q	8.62
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-14.18
Operating Income Growth5 Y	-2.08
Operating margin	8.45
Price target	$96.2
Price Target Change	$-7.75
Price Target Change Top	$1.65

Ownership and float

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

Metric	Value
Float	45,619,464%
Float Percent	81.71%
Net Borrowing	-27,827,000
Shares Insiders	18.25%
Shares Institutions	85.37%
Shares Out	55,834,311
Shares Qo Q	-0.13%
Shares Yo Y	-0.43%
Short Float	6.02%
Short Ratio	4.36
Short Shares	4.92

Other indicators

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

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$200.3M
Average Volume	592,434.75x
Bv Per Share	24.78
CAPEX	$-86.2M
Ch10y	37.79
Ch15y	47.66
Ch1m	14.96
Ch1w	1.61
Ch1y	39.11
Ch20y	94.92
Ch3m	9.13
Ch3y	14.95
Ch5y	11.36
Ch6m	18.46
Change	-0.03%
Change From Open	-0.44
Close	104.3
Days Gap	0.41
Depreciation Amortization	96,363,000
Dollar Volume	63,061,244.4
Earnings Date	2026-06-30
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$323.8M
EBITDA	$420.2M
EPS	$3.72
F Score	6
FCF	$215M
FCF EV Yield	3.39x
FCF Per Share	$3.85
Financing CF	-241,826,000
Fiscal Year End	August
Founded	1,941
Goodwill	724,456,000
Graham Number	45.54406
Graham Upside	-56.33
Income Tax	$68.5M
Investing CF	-55,055,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-01
Last Report Date	2026-02-28
Last Split Date	1998-05-26
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-10-23
Lynch Fair Value	$18.6
Lynch Upside	-82.16
Ma150	89.79
Ma150ch	16.14%
Ma20	99.74
Ma20ch	4.55%
Net CF	4,916,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-06-30
Open	104.7
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	27.08
P OCF Ratio	19.33
Payment Date	2026-04-22
Position In Range	28.09
Ppne	391,460,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$13.86
Ptbv Ratio	10.02
Relative Volume	1.02x
Revenue	3,832,778,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.38x
Share Based Comp	14,687,000
Tax By Revenue	1.79x
Tax Rate	24.94%
Tr20y	286.92%
Tr6m	22.05%
Us State	New York
Volume	604,730
Z Score	5.17

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Moat score

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Next action

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Income

MSM dividend yield, growth & safety

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

Dividend yield

+3.3%

$3.48 annual per share

Payout ratio

+93.0%

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

5Y dividend CAGR

-11.8%

4 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+3.8%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-04-08

Performance

MSM stock returns vs the market

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

Ownership

Who owns MSM?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+85.4%

Float: +81.7% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+18.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

MSM momentum and risk profile

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

RSI (14)

65.8

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+16.3%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.81

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

1.34

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

Peers

MSM 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%	持有
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	卖出
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	卖出

Questions

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