MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO., INC.
At today's price, MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO., INC. (MSM) is priced for +21.8% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• MSC Industrial is a metalworking-and-MRO distributor that competes on breadth, service, and inventory management in a market the company itself calls ⟦"highly fragmented,"⟧ where scale and supplier relationships are the durable advantages. • The biggest risk is the price: at roughly 25x operating income it embeds about 20.7% annual operating-income growth for five years, a pace far above the low-single-digit sales growth a mature industrial distributor delivers. • Watch the recovery in manufac
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400 institutional managers reported holding MSM in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 83% of the company; the top 10 hold 41%. 60 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 2.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (3.7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MSM's share count is about flat over the past five years ($384.43M of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 4 years straight; the current rate is $2.22 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $518.34M in dividends and $305.44M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at MSM over the trailing three years: 2025: 10 buys totaling $29.05M. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MSM's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-30 | -0.7% | +6.7% |
| 2023-10-26 | -1.9% | +8.5% |
| 2024-01-10 | -1.9% | +3.8% |
| 2024-03-29 | -2.5% | -11.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MSM's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-01 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-16 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-15 (items 5.02); 2026-04-01 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-19 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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