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 August 19, 2026, MSM stock price declined to $120.33 with 476,265 million shares trading.

MSM has a beta of 0.27, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MSM has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MSM has a market cap of $6.71 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter MSC Industrial Direct Company reported $1 billion in Revenue and $1.43 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $16 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.17.

In the last 3 years, MSM traded as high as $130.46 and as low as $68.10.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MSM belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, SCHD, AIRR, VB.

MSM has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +42.3%, while the SPY ETF gained +20.7%. In the last 3 month period, MSM beat the market returning +15.8%, while SPY returned +4.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MSM has underperformed the stock market by returning -5.1%, while SPY returned -0.3%.

MSM support price is $120.46 and resistance is $124.73 (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.