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 (MRO) supplies. MSC primarily operates within 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 December 17, 2025, MSM stock price climbed to $86.10 with 412,698 million shares trading.

MSM has a beta of 0.89, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MSM has a correlation of 0.35 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 $978 million in Revenue and $1.09 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $14 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

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, VTI, SCHD, VB, DVY.

MSM has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +10.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +12.3%. In the last 3 month period, MSM fell short of the market, returning -4.7%, while SPY returned +2.1%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MSM has outperformed the stock market by returning +4.0%, while SPY returned -1.8%.

MSM support price is $84.01 and resistance is $87.51 (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.