MSA Safety Incorporated (MSA): Price and Financial Metrics

MSA POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where MSA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.49% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for MSA is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• MSA ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 5th percentile.

MSA Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 261.22, MSA SAFETY INC is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 88.99% of US stocks.
• With a price/earnings ratio of 484.38, MSA SAFETY INC P/E ratio is greater than that of about 98.8% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• Over the past twelve months, MSA has reported earnings growth of 185.43%, putting it ahead of 92.73% of US stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to MSA SAFETY INC are INGN, MYGN, TKNO, XRX, and FNA.
• Visit MSA's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.msasafety.com.

MSA Valuation Summary

• MSA's price/sales ratio is 4; this is 233.33% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, MSA's price/sales ratio has gone up 2.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MSA.

MSA Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -28.13%.
• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at 7.25%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 0.38%.

MSA's revenue has moved up $149,791,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows MSA's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	1,527.953	157.455	179.63
2022-09-30	1,494.966	172.905	69.119
2022-06-30	1,453.469	155.207	43.036
2022-03-31	1,422.445	178.052	20.468
2021-12-31	1,400.182	199.145	21.34
2021-09-30	1,378.162	226.543	92.7

MSA's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• MSA has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 69.54% of graded US stocks.
• MSA's asset turnover comes in at 0.686 -- ranking 54th of 186 Medical Equipment stocks.
• BIOL, TCMD, and COO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MSA.

The table below shows MSA's key quality metrics over time.