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 97.08% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for MSM is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• MSM's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 33.04% of US stocks).

MSM Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.12% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -38.15%, MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC's debt growth rate surpasses merely 8.08% of about US stocks.
• MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 9.5%, greater than the shareholder yield of 82.02% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC are AIT, FIX, JJSF, PDCO, and SKX.
• MSM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC's official web site, go to www.mscdirect.com.

MSM Valuation Summary

• MSM's EV/EBIT ratio is 11.7; this is 25.95% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, MSM's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 6.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MSM.

MSM Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 26.02%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 5.23%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 8.94%.

Over the past 70 months, MSM's revenue has gone up $938,471,000.

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
2022-12-31	3,801.091	264.403	355.033
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

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.