MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC MSM

Industrials SIC 5084 - Wholesale-Industrial Machinery & Equipment NAICS Wholesale Trade › Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods › Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers › Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers derived NYSE

MSC is a leading North American distributor of a broad range of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations ("MRO") products and services. With a history of driving innovation in industrial product distribution for more than 80 years, we help solve our manufacturing customers' metalworking and MRO challenges. Through our technical metalworking expertise and inventory management and other supply chain solutions, our team of more than 7,000 associates helps to keep our customers' manufacturing operations up and running and to improve their efficiency, productivity and profitability.

We serve a broad range of customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom, from individual machine shops to Fortune 1000 manufacturing companies to government agencies such as the United States General Services Administration and the United States Department of Defense. We operate a sophisticated network of five customer fulfillment centers, nine regional inventory centers, 38 warehouses (36 in North America and two in other foreign countries) and five manufacturing locations. Our customer fulfillment centers are located in or near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; Elkhart, Indiana; Reno, Nevada; and Hanover Park, Illinois.

Last close 121.41 2026-09-04
Market cap $6.78B 2026-05-30 share count
52-week range 78.80 - 130.46

Valuation FY2025 figures against the last close

P/S1.8x
P/E34.0x
P/FCF28.1x
EV/EBITDA19.3x
Dividend yield—
Diluted EPS3.57

Annual financial statements

Income statement

Fiscal year FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020FY2019FY2018FY2017FY2016
Revenue $3.77B$3.82B$4.01B$3.69B$3.24B$3.19B$3.36B$3.20B$2.89B$2.86B
Cost of revenue $2.23B$2.25B$2.37B$2.13B$1.91B$1.85B$1.93B$1.81B$1.60B$1.57B
Gross profit $1.54B$1.57B$1.64B$1.56B$1.33B$1.34B$1.43B$1.39B$1.29B$1.29B
Total operating expenses $1.22B$1.17B$1.15B$1.08B$994.5M$975.6M$1.03B$972.4M$907.2M$912.9M
Operating income $301.6M$390.4M$483.7M$468.7M$301.8M$350.7M$400.0M$420.6M$379.0M$376.0M
Interest expense $24.1M$25.8M$22.5M$17.6M$14.5M$16.7M$16.9M$14.5M$12.4M$5.8M
Pre-tax income $263.6M$342.7M$456.2M$451.1M$288.4M$334.2M$383.1M$406.2M$368.0M$371.7M
Income tax $65.7M$86.8M$113.0M$110.7M$70.4M$82.5M$94.3M$77.0M$136.6M$140.5M
Net income $199.3M$258.6M$343.2M$339.8M$216.9M$251.1M$288.9M$329.2M$231.4M$231.2M
EPS, basic 3.574.606.146.093.894.535.235.844.083.78
EPS, diluted 3.574.586.116.063.874.515.205.804.053.77
Shares, diluted (wtd. avg.) 55.9M56.4M56.2M56.0M56.1M55.6M55.5M56.7M57.0M61.1M

Balance sheet

Fiscal year FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020FY2019FY2018FY2017FY2016
Cash and equivalents $56.2M$29.6M$50.1M$43.5M$40.5M$125.2M$32.3M$46.2M$16.1M$52.9M
Receivables $423.3M$412.1M$435.4M$687.6M$560.4M$491.7M$541.1M$523.9M$471.8M$392.5M
Inventory $644.1M$643.9M$726.5M$715.6M$624.2M$543.1M$559.1M$518.5M$465.0M$444.2M
Total current assets $1.23B$1.19B$1.32B$1.54B$1.31B$1.24B$1.20B$1.15B$1.01B$981.5M
Property, plant and equipment $346.7M$360.3M$319.7M$286.7M$298.4M$302.0M$310.9M$311.7M$316.3M$320.5M
Goodwill $723.7M$723.9M$718.2M$710.1M$692.7M$677.6M$677.3M$675.0M$633.7M$624.1M
Other intangibles $85.5M$101.1M$110.6M$114.3M$101.9M$104.9M$116.7M$122.7M$110.4M$105.3M
Total assets $2.46B$2.46B$2.54B$2.73B$2.46B$2.38B$2.31B$2.29B$2.10B$2.06B
Accounts payable $225.2M$205.9M$226.3M$217.4M$186.3M$125.8M$160.1M$145.1M$121.3M$110.6M
Short-term debt $316.7M$229.7M$229.7M$324.7M$201.2M$121.0M$174.7M$224.1M$332.0M$267.1M
Total current liabilities $729.3M$605.4M$649.4M$725.9M$561.9M$408.7M$446.9M$490.5M$557.7M$478.6M
Long-term debt $168.6M$278.4M$224.2M$468.7M$582.4M$494.6M$264.2M———
Total liabilities $1.07B$1.06B$1.05B$1.37B$1.30B$1.06B$827.4M$901.5M$873.8M$966.6M
Retained earnings $432.6M$456.9M$755.0M$681.3M$532.3M$749.5M$946.7M$1.33B$1.17B$1.04B
Total equity $1.39B$1.39B$1.49B$1.36B$1.16B$1.32B$1.48B$1.39B$1.23B$1.10B

Cash flow

Fiscal year FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020FY2019FY2018FY2017FY2016
Operating cash flow $333.7M$410.7M$699.6M$246.2M$224.5M$396.7M$328.4M$339.7M$246.8M$401.1M
Depreciation and amortisation $72.1M$64.8M$59.8M$58.3M$57.2M$57.2M$53.2M$52.1M$54.4M$57.1M
Stock-based compensation $12.6M$18.8M$18.6M$19.3M$17.7M$16.9M$16.3M$14.9M$13.9M$14.0M
Capital expenditure $92.8M$99.4M$92.5M$61.4M$53.7M$47.0M$51.8M$44.9M$46.5M$87.9M
Investing cash flow -$63.3M-$123.4M-$112.7M-$94.5M-$75.7M-$49.3M-$36.4M-$131.9M-$88.9M-$87.9M
Financing cash flow -$243.6M-$307.4M-$580.4M-$148.1M-$233.7M-$254.6M-$305.6M-$177.6M-$194.7M-$298.4M
Buybacks $39.3M$187.7M$95.8M$27.4M$71.3M$3.4M$84.6M$82.4M$49.2M$383.8M

Figures as tagged in each year's own filing, in US dollars. A year restated by a later filing shows the restated figure. Capital expenditure, dividends and buybacks are cash out, shown positive. A line the filer does not report is not listed. Latest from accession 0001003078-25-000123.

Plot the figures US dollars

Income statement Revenue Cost of revenue Gross profit R&D SG&A Total operating expenses Operating income Interest expense Pre-tax income Income tax Net income EPS, basic EPS, diluted Shares, diluted (wtd. avg.)
Balance sheet Cash and equivalents Short-term investments Receivables Inventory Total current assets Property, plant and equipment Goodwill Other intangibles Total assets Accounts payable Short-term debt Total current liabilities Long-term debt Total liabilities Retained earnings Total equity
Cash flow Operating cash flow Depreciation and amortisation Stock-based compensation Capital expenditure Investing cash flow Financing cash flow Dividends paid Buybacks
  • Revenue
  • Gross profit
  • Net income
Revenue, Gross profit, Net income by fiscal year, in US dollars The same figures are in the table below this chart. 0 2B 4B 6B Revenue, FY2016: 2.9B Gross profit, FY2016: 1.3B Net income, FY2016: 231.2M Revenue, FY2017: 2.9B Gross profit, FY2017: 1.3B Net income, FY2017: 231.4M Revenue, FY2018: 3.2B Gross profit, FY2018: 1.4B Net income, FY2018: 329.2M Revenue, FY2019: 3.4B Gross profit, FY2019: 1.4B Net income, FY2019: 288.9M Revenue, FY2020: 3.2B Gross profit, FY2020: 1.3B Net income, FY2020: 251.1M Revenue, FY2021: 3.2B Gross profit, FY2021: 1.3B Net income, FY2021: 216.9M Revenue, FY2022: 3.7B Gross profit, FY2022: 1.6B Net income, FY2022: 339.8M Revenue, FY2023: 4B Gross profit, FY2023: 1.6B Net income, FY2023: 343.2M Revenue, FY2024: 3.8B Gross profit, FY2024: 1.6B Net income, FY2024: 258.6M Revenue, FY2025: 3.8B Gross profit, FY2025: 1.5B Net income, FY2025: 199.3M FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
Fiscal year FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Revenue $2.86B $2.89B $3.20B $3.36B $3.19B $3.24B $3.69B $4.01B $3.82B $3.77B
Gross profit $1.29B $1.29B $1.39B $1.43B $1.34B $1.33B $1.56B $1.64B $1.57B $1.54B
Net income $231.2M $231.4M $329.2M $288.9M $251.1M $216.9M $339.8M $343.2M $258.6M $199.3M

Recent filings and events

  • Officer or director change Someone at the top arrived or left. The item covers everything from a board retirement to a chief executive being removed, and only the filing itself says which. Item 5.02
  • Officer or director change Item 5.02
  • Results announced The quarterly or annual earnings release. Arrives four times a year from almost every company here. Item 2.02
  • Regulation FD disclosure Something the company told the market and had to tell everyone at once - usually a slide deck or a press release. Item 7.01
  • Officer or director change Item 5.02
  • Results announced Item 2.02
  • Regulation FD disclosure Item 7.01
  • Officer or director change Item 5.02
  • Regulation FD disclosure Item 7.01
  • Officer or director change Item 5.02
  • Shareholder vote The results of the annual meeting or a special vote. Item 5.07
  • Results announced Item 2.02

Item numbers are Form 8-K's own, and a filing date is up to four business days after the thing it reports. The same feed across the whole market.

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