MSA Safety Incorporated (MSA): Price and Financial Metrics

MSA POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where MSA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 76.82% of US stocks.
• MSA's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• MSA ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 15th percentile.

MSA Stock Summary

• MSA's went public 32.03 years ago, making it older than 84.38% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• MSA's current price/earnings ratio is 252.69, which is higher than 97.58% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 81.46%, MSA Safety Inc's debt growth rate surpasses 87.93% of about US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to MSA Safety Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be HAS, CBT, AYTU, XRX, and AIMC.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, MSA's EV/EBIT ratio is 105.03% higher, now standing at 44.8.
• Over the past 243 months, MSA's price/sales ratio has gone up 3.8.
• MSA's price/sales ratio has moved up 3.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MSA.

MSA Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 115.27%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 57.82%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 191.17%.

Over the past 34 months, MSA's revenue has gone up $41,933,000.

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
2021-12-31	1,400.182	199.145	21.34
2021-09-30	1,378.162	226.543	92.7
2021-06-30	1,342.357	207.438	101.911
2021-03-31	1,315.506	238.564	112.852
2020-12-31	1,348.223	206.555	120.101
2020-09-30	1,335.23	186.867	138.936

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.