MSM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (MSC Industrial Direct Company | NYSE:MSM)

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 January 16, 2026, MSM stock price declined to $84.76 with 882,734 million shares trading.

MSM has a beta of 0.88, 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 $4.73 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 price return of +8.5% while the SPY ETF gained +18.1%. MSM has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +1.3% and -0.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +5.0% and +1.2%, respectively.

MSM support price is $84.61 and resistance is $87.65 (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.