MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. (MSM): Price and Financial Metrics

MSM POWR Grades

• MSM scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 88.54% of US stocks.
• MSM's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• MSM ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 44th percentile.

MSM Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for MSM is 2.73 -- better than 80.98% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 83.98% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, MSM is more volatile than only 3.91% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to MSM, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AIT, SITE, KFY, COLM, and PDCO.
• Visit MSM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.mscdirect.com.

MSM Valuation Summary

• MSM's price/sales ratio is 1.3; this is 35% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• MSM's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MSM.

MSM Growth Metrics

Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -6.94%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -57.75%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 58.71%.

MSM's revenue has moved up $336,072,000 over the prior 33 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	3,691.893	246.183	339.786
2022-06-30	3,500.679	220.404	301.589
2022-03-31	3,408.394	162.949	296.366
2021-12-31	3,319.867	179.036	244.52
2021-09-30	3,243.224	224.462	216.907
2021-06-30	3,159.925	321.158	203.469

MSM'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.

• MSM has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 92.24% of graded US stocks.
• MSM's asset turnover comes in at 1.369 -- ranking 60th of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• CHEF, DLA, and INT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MSM.

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