MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (MSM) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (MSM): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc.
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the distribution of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) products and services in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's metalworking and MRO products include cutting tools, abrasives, machining fluids, measuring instruments, metalworking products, machinery and accessories, tooling components, fasteners, flat stock products, raw materials, machinery hand and power tools, safety and janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies, materials handling products, power transmission components, and electrical supplies. It also offers stock-keeping units through its catalogs and brochures; e-commerce channels, including its website; inventory management solutions; and customer care centers, customer fulfillment centers, regional inventory centers and warehouses. In addition, the company serves individual machine shops, manufacturing companies, and government agencies. MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.
Sector: Industrials · Industry: Industrial Distribution · United States · 7,077 employees · mscdirect.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (MSM) a trailing P/E of 29.3 (forward 22.3), a dividend yield of 2.95% and a beta of 0.82; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $78.80 – $130.46 (30.7% over the year).
- Enterprise value
- $7.26B
- Trailing P/E
- 29.3
- Forward P/E
- 22.3
- PEG ratio
- 2.40
- Price / book
- 4.78
- EPS (trailing)
- $4.14
- EPS (forward)
- $5.45
- Dividend yield
- 2.95%
- Payout ratio
- 83.6%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-07-08
- 52-week range
- $78.80 – $130.46
- 52-week change
- 30.7%
- Beta
- 0.82
- Average volume
- 725,680
- Short % of float
- 4.24%
- Profit margin
- 5.9%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (MSM) last closed at $119.68 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 48 (neutral territory), price -0.4% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -1.6%, MACD histogram 0.06.
Sentiment inputs: 50% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 100% bullish; Reddit mentions 0% over 24 hours; analyst consensus score 55/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 41 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
RapidTradeView has recorded no Congress or insider filing for MSM in the last 90 days. Coverage of House, Senate and SEC Form 4 filings began in July 2026, and insider sells are tracked for universe tickers only, so this is our record, not a guarantee that nothing was filed. Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
MSM has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (MSM) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell MSM.
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