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MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc.

MSM Industrials Industrial Distribution

MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended August 2025) was $3.8 billion, down 1.35% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to May 2026, revenue grew 7.82%, EPS grew 41.2%, free cash flow fell 23.9% and total debt fell 2.74%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

130.38 0.32 −0.24%
Market cap
$7.3B
P/E
31.5×
Fwd P/E
27.6×
Dividend yield
2.67%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
5.26
Beneish M
−2.75
Dividend safety
53/100
Overview Business Profile Financial Analysis Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios 10-Q 10-K

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total buys 2.54
Total sells 0.16
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy 2 — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — 1 — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 18.30%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 7,300.00
Revenue 3,908.72
Net Income 228.11
Free Cash Flow 220.99
Net Debt 432.68
Current Ratio 1.55 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.36 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 31.49
Fwd P/E 27.60
P/S ratio 1.86
P/B ratio 5.13
Past 5Y EPS Growth (4.57%) (below 0%: weak)
This Y EPS Growth 23.51% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y EPS Growth 19.82% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y revenue growth 5.90%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 19.89% (at or above 15%: strong)

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 2.0×, against a ten-year median of 1.5×; over the ten years it ranged from 1.1× in 2020 to 2.1× in 2017.
P/E against its own 10 years 99.89%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 97.20%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 99.34%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 97.35%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 95.10%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.84
Annual Dividend Rate 3.48
Annual Dividend Yield 2.67%
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 3.50
0.87
0.87
0.87
2025 3.42
0.85
0.85
0.85
0.87
2024 3.34
0.83
0.83
0.83
0.85
2023 3.20
0.79
0.79
0.79
0.83
2022 3.04
0.75
0.75
0.75
0.79
2021 3.00
0.75
0.75
0.75
0.75
2020 2.25
5.00
0.75
0.75
0.75
3.50
2019 2.76
0.63
0.63
0.75
0.75
2018 2.37
0.58
0.58
0.58
0.63
2017 1.83
0.45
0.45
0.45
0.48
2016 2.19
0.43
0.43
0.43
0.45
0.45
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 50 30 56 74
Receivables 435 412 423 413
Inventory 727 644 644 684
Other — — — —
1,318 1,188 1,227 1,277
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 226 206 225 229
ST’ Debt 230 230 317 417
Other — — — —
649 605 729 825

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 2.62% 3.38% 0.70%
Cash Flow 2.94% (3.40%) 10.67%
Earnings (1.48%) (4.51%) (16.29%)
Book Value 0.47% 1.12% 0.83%

Revenue $m

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 966 918 1,047 — —
’25 928 892 971 978 3,770
’24 954 935 979 952 3,821
’23 958 962 1,054 1,035 4,009
’22 849 863 959 1,022 3,692
’21 772 774 866 831 3,243
’20 824 786 835 748 3,192
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 29 94 102 — —
’25 102 54 97 80 334
’24 81 79 144 107 411
’23 76 340 151 133 700
’22 58 0 78 111 246
’21 103 16 20 85 224
’20 85 71 59 182 397
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 8 73 81 — —
’25 82 25 106 59 271
’24 63 53 114 81 311
’23 51 325 127 104 607
’22 43 (16) 64 119 210
’21 95 4 3 69 171
’20 72 58 49 171 350
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 0.93 0.76 1.44 — —
’25 0.83 0.70 1.02 1.01 3.57
’24 1.22 1.10 1.27 0.99 4.58
’23 1.45 1.41 1.69 1.56 6.11
’22 1.18 1.25 1.78 1.86 6.06
’21 0.69 0.32 1.68 1.18 3.87
’20 1.18 1.00 1.40 0.94 4.51
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

2.6
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to August

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 54.19 65.42 73.28 64.59 44.93 77.47 71.33 76.75 72.79 68.10

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 95.10 105.70 99.94 86.87 87.84 96.23 87.99 105.77 104.76 94.31
People
People Employees — 6,563 6,657 6,700 6,315 6,571 6,994 7,377 7,423 7,284
Revenue/emp, $m 0.00 0.44 0.48 0.50 0.51 0.49 0.53 0.54 0.51 0.52
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 2,864 2,888 3,204 3,364 3,192 3,243 3,692 4,009 3,821 3,770
Gross margin, % 45.01 44.54 43.48 42.57 42.08 41.12 42.21 40.98 41.16 40.75
EBT 372 368 406 383 334 288 451 456 343 264
EBT margin, % 12.98 12.74 12.68 11.39 10.47 8.89 12.22 11.38 8.97 6.99
Net income 231 231 329 289 252 218 340 343 256 198
Depreciation 72 63 63 65 69 69 71 76 83 92
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 47.01 51.03 56.85 60.89 57.55 58.19 66.19 71.70 67.92 67.58
Earnings 3.78 4.08 5.84 5.23 4.53 3.89 6.09 6.14 4.60 3.57
Cash flow 6.59 4.36 6.03 5.94 7.15 4.03 4.41 12.51 7.30 5.98
Capex (1.44) (0.82) (0.80) (0.94) (0.85) (0.96) (0.66) (1.65) (1.77) (1.12)
Free cash flow 5.14 3.54 5.23 5.01 6.30 3.06 3.76 10.86 5.53 4.86
Book value 18.03 21.65 24.62 26.86 23.81 20.85 24.42 26.69 24.91 25.04
Shares, m 61 57 56 55 55 56 56 56 56 56
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 19.27 16.92 14.64 12.74 14.58 21.65 13.03 16.62 17.50 25.06
P/S 1.55 1.35 1.50 1.09 1.15 1.45 1.20 1.42 1.19 1.32
P/B 4.05 3.18 3.47 2.48 2.77 4.04 3.24 3.82 3.23 3.56
EV/Sales 1.67 1.45 1.62 1.22 1.30 1.69 1.40 1.52 1.31 1.43
EV/FCF 15.23 20.85 17.56 14.79 11.86 32.07 24.67 10.07 16.09 19.93
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 401 247 340 328 397 224 246 700 411 334
Capex (88) (47) (45) (52) (47) (54) (37) (92) (99) (63)
Free cash flow 313 200 295 277 350 171 210 607 311 271
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 503 448 657 753 829 752 818 668 583 497
Total debt 607 533 535 442 619 822 795 454 509 486
Net debt 554 517 489 410 494 782 751 404 479 429
Shareholders’ equity 1,098 1,225 1,387 1,484 1,321 1,162 1,362 1,493 1,401 1,397
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 11.10 11.12 15.01 12.56 10.70 8.95 13.09 13.02 10.33 8.10
ROIC 14.22 13.60 14.01 13.20 12.08 9.70 13.86 15.94 12.98 10.32
ROE 19.02 19.92 25.20 20.12 17.91 17.48 26.92 24.05 17.87 14.25
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Aug 2025 · latest quarter May 2026

Charts ten years each

MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. vs peers in Industrial Distribution (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
WSO.B Watsco, Inc. $16.0B 24.9× — +2.06% (above 0%: growing) −11.50% (below 0%: shrinking) +17.57% (above 0%: growing) 27.50% 11.32% Compare
WSO Watsco, Inc. $12.4B 25.6× 28.8× +2.06% (above 0%: growing) −11.50% (below 0%: shrinking) +17.57% (above 0%: growing) 27.50% 11.32% Compare
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. $12.3B 29.8× 26.7× +10.45% (above 0%: growing) +13.03% (above 0%: growing) +15.02% (above 0%: growing) 30.40% 11.78% Compare
QXO QXO, Inc. $11.6B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +70.30% (above 0%: growing) n/m −27.62% (below 0%: shrinking) 24.74% (1.29%) Compare
CNM Core & Main, Inc. $8.0B 17.3× 19.2× +2.48% (above 0%: growing) +8.45% (above 0%: growing) +83.33% (above 0%: growing) 26.71% 10.58% Compare
MSM MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. $7.3B 31.5× 27.6× +7.82% (above 0%: growing) +41.18% (above 0%: growing) −23.88% (below 0%: shrinking) 41.11% 10.19%
POOL Pool Corporation $6.2B 15.8× 16.7× +2.15% (above 0%: growing) −0.19% (below 0%: shrinking) −27.07% (below 0%: shrinking) 29.66% 14.68% Compare
XMTR Xometry, Inc. $5.7B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +41.05% (above 0%: growing) n/m −41.54% (below 0%: shrinking) 38.01% (2.42%) Compare
SITE SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. $4.1B 25.8× 26.2× +4.73% (above 0%: growing) +9.72% (above 0%: growing) +8.91% (above 0%: growing) 36.88% 12.91% Compare
Median of peers $9.8B 25.3× 26.2× +3.61% +4.13% +11.97% 28.58% 11.32%

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MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. (MSM) key facts

  • Concern: MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended August 2025) was $3.8 billion, down 1.35% from fiscal 2024.
  • Concern: Net income was $197.8 million, or $3.57 per share (basic), a net margin of 5.29%.
  • MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. (MSM) is an Industrial Distribution company in the Industrials sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • As of October 16, 2026, MSM traded at $130.38, a market capitalization of $7.3 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 31.5× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 1.9× sales; its P/E is higher than 100% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $3.48 per share, a yield of 2.67%, with a payout ratio of 84.1%.
  • Return on equity was 14.3% and debt-to-equity 0.36.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 5.26 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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