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 products include breathing apparatuses, fall protection, portable gas detection systems, industrial head protection, fire and rescue helmets, and fixed gas and flame detection systems. End markets include the fire service, contractor, industrial, mining, oil and gas, and utilities industries. MSA Safety generates majority of its revenue in North America. The company's reportable geographic segments are Americas, International and Corporate.

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

As of December 13, 2024, MSA stock price declined to $174.41 with 82,143 million shares trading.

MSA has a beta of 1.09, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. MSA has a correlation of 0.36 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MSA has a market cap of $6.86 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Msa Safety reported $433 million in Revenue and $1.83 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-17 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, MSA traded as high as $200.61 and as low as $108.75.

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

MSA has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +4.2% while the SPY ETF gained +31.7%. MSA has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +1.1% and +0.1%, respectively, while the SPY returned +8.4% and +0.9%, respectively.

MSA support price is $173.52 and resistance is $179.28 (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.