MSM Stock Drops 5.9% After Earnings—History Suggests Post-Earnings Volatility Persists
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MSC Industrial Supply Co. Reports Fiscal 2026 First Quarter Results
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MSC Industrial Supply Co. Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend
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MSC Industrial Supply Co. To Webcast Review of Fiscal 2026 First Quarter Results
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MSC Industrial Supply Co. to Participate at Upcoming Investor Conferences
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Founded in 1941, MSC Industrial Direct originally manufactured and sold cutting tools to metalworking shops in New York. Through a series of acquisitions and organic expansions, MSC has grown into an industrial distribution powerhouse with a focus on specialized metalworking products and services. The firm also distributes a wide breadth of maintenance, repair, and operations supplies. MSC primarily operates in North America, where it derives over 95% of its revenue.
MSC Industrial Direct Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MSM.
As of February 2, 2026, MSM stock price climbed to $86.01 with 62,624 million shares trading.
MSM has a beta of 0.86, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MSM has a correlation of 0.37 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MSM has a market cap of $4.80 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter MSC Industrial Direct Company reported $966 million in Revenue and $.99 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $2 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.04.
In the last 3 years, MSM traded as high as $105.77 and as low as $68.10.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that MSM belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, SCHD, VTI, AIRR, DVY.
MSM has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +9.2%, while SPY returned +16.1%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in MSM shares. However, MSM has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +3.1% and +1.5%, while SPY returned +2.5% and +0.5%, respectively. This indicates MSM has been having a stronger performance recently.
MSM support price is $82.95 and resistance is $85.73 (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 MSM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
