MSA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Msa Safety | NYSE:MSA)

MSA Safety Inc makes safety products that are used to protect workers in the oil and gas and mining industries. The company's product offerings include breathing apparatuses, fall protection, portable gas detection systems, industrial head protection, fire and rescue helmets, and fixed gas and flame detection systems, among others. The end markets for its products include the fire service, contractor, industrial, mining, oil and gas, and utilities industries. The company has organized its business into four geographical operating segments that are aggregated into two reportable segments: Americas and International. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Americas segment, which is comprised of the company's operations in Northern North America and Latin America geographies.

Msa Safety trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MSA.

As of March 27, 2026, MSA stock price declined to $165.26 with 192,383 million shares trading.

MSA has a beta of 0.91, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MSA has a correlation of 0.35 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MSA has a market cap of $6.41 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Msa Safety reported $511 million in Revenue and $2.38 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $2 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.12.

In the last 3 years, MSA traded as high as $208.92 and as low as $122.57.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MSA belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IJH, VB, VBR, VXF.

MSA has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +10.2% while the SPY ETF gained +13.1%. However, in the short term, MSA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +1.2% vs -7.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, MSA shares have been beat by the market, returning -6.7% compared to an SPY return of -4.0%.

MSA support price is $164.07 and resistance is $171.31 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MSA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.