MSA Safety is a security & protection services business based in the US. MSA Safety shares (MSA) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $171.82 – a decrease of 0.53% over the previous week. MSA Safety employs 5,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $171.82 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $158.24 - $199.44 |
| 50-day moving average | $173.16 |
| 200-day moving average | $181.24 |
| Wall St. target price | $202.50 |
| PE ratio | 24.824 |
| Dividend yield | $1.96 (1.18%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $6.93 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $168.04 from 2024-11-19
| 1 week (2024-11-14) | -2.72% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-10-21) | -1.65% |
| 3 months (2024-08-21) | -5.74% |
| 6 months (2024-05-21) | -11.53% |
| 1 year (2023-11-21) | 1.70% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-11-21) | 23.15% |
| 3 years (2021-11-19) | 11.98% |
| 5 years (2019-11-21) | 45.63% |
Valuing MSA Safety stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of MSA Safety's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
MSA Safety's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 25x. In other words, MSA Safety shares trade at around 25x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
MSA Safety's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.7. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into MSA Safety's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
MSA Safety's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $477.6 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a MSA Safety's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 23.08% |
| Gross profit TTM | $673.8 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 11.69% |
| Return on equity TTM | 27.84% |
| Profit margin | 15.16% |
| Book value | $27.77 |
| Market Capitalization | $6.8 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 26.63% of net profits
Recently MSA Safety has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), MSA Safety shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In MSA Safety's case, that would currently equate to about $1.96 per share.
While MSA Safety's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that MSA Safety may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
MSA Safety's most recent dividend payout was on 9 December 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 14 November 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
MSA Safety's shares were split on a 3:1 basis on 28 January 2004 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your MSA Safety shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 66.7% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for MSA Safety shares which in turn could have impacted MSA Safety's share price.
Over the last 12 months, MSA Safety's shares have ranged in value from as little as $158.2378 up to $199.443. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while MSA Safety's is 0.989. This would suggest that MSA Safety's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
MSA Safety Incorporated develops, manufactures, and supplies safety products and technology solutions that protect people and facility infrastructures in the fire service, energy, utility, construction, and industrial manufacturing applications, as well as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration industries worldwide. The company's core product offerings include fixed gas and flame detection systems, such as gas detection monitoring systems, and flame detectors and open-path infrared gas detectors; breathing apparatus products, including self-contained breathing apparatus; hand-held portable gas detection instruments to detect the presence or absence of various gases in the air; industrial head protection products; firefighter helmets and protective apparel; and fall protection equipment, such as confined space equipment, harnesses, lanyards, and self-retracting lifelines, as well as engineered systems. In addition, the company offers air-purifying respirators, eye and face protection products, ballistic helmets, and gas masks. It serves distributors and end-users through indirect and direct sales channels. The company offers its products under the V-Gard, Cairns, and Gallet brand names. MSA Safety Incorporated was founded in 1914 and is based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. .
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