NYSE:MSA - MSA Safety Stock Price, Forecast & News

MSA Safety trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MSA."

MSA Safety announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 15th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, February 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.42 per share on Tuesday, March 10th. This represents a $1.68 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 11th. View MSA Safety's Dividend History.

MSA Safety Inc (NYSE:MSA) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The industrial products company reported $1.15 EPS for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.15. The industrial products company had revenue of $351.01 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $346.49 million. MSA Safety had a net margin of 9.37% and a return on equity of 27.80%. MSA Safety's quarterly revenue was up 6.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.16 earnings per share. View MSA Safety's Earnings History.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for MSA Safety's stock. Their forecasts range from $105.00 to $120.00. On average, they anticipate MSA Safety's stock price to reach $112.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 20.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for MSA Safety.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for MSA Safety in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for MSA Safety.

News articles about MSA stock have been trending extremely negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. MSA Safety earned a media sentiment score of -4.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for MSA Safety.

MSA Safety saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,490,000 shares, a decrease of 6.3% from the January 15th total of 1,590,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 158,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 9.4 days. Approximately 4.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View MSA Safety's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to MSA Safety include Avery Dennison (AVY), Herman Miller (MLHR), Steelcase (SCS), HNI (HNI), Knoll (KNL), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), Kimball International (KBAL), Pitney Bowes (PBI), CompX International (CIX), NL Industries (NL) and ARC Document Solutions (ARC).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other MSA Safety investors own include Lancaster Colony (LANC), PepsiCo (PEP), 3M (MMM), AFLAC (AFL), Ecolab (ECL), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Mcdonald's (MCD), Medtronic (MDT), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

MSA Safety's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (5.88%), Champlain Investment Partners LLC (3.17%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.31%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.13%), Pictet Asset Management Ltd. (1.74%) and UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (1.67%). Company insiders that own MSA Safety stock include Bob Willem Leenen, Diane M Pearse, Douglas K Mcclaine, John T Ryan III, Kenneth D Krause, Kerry M Bove, L Edward Shaw Jr, Nishan J Vartanian, Randall Killeen, Steven C Sr Blanco and William M Lambert. View Institutional Ownership Trends for MSA Safety.

MSA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., AQR Capital Management LLC, State Street Corp, PNC Financial Services Group Inc., Eagle Asset Management Inc., Morgan Dempsey Capital Management LLC, New York State Common Retirement Fund and GW&K Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold MSA Safety company stock in the last year include Bob Willem Leenen, Diane M Pearse, Douglas K Mcclaine, John T Ryan III, Kenneth D Krause, L Edward Shaw Jr, Steven C Sr Blanco and William M Lambert. View Insider Buying and Selling for MSA Safety.

MSA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Champlain Investment Partners LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., WCM Investment Management LLC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. and Handelsbanken Fonder AB. View Insider Buying and Selling for MSA Safety.

Shares of MSA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MSA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $140.72.

MSA Safety has a market capitalization of $5.45 billion and generates $1.36 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $124.15 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.50 on an earnings per share basis. MSA Safety employs 4,800 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About MSA Safety.

The official website for MSA Safety is http://www.msasafety.com/.

MSA Safety's mailing address is 1000 CRANBERRY WOODS DRIVE, CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP PA, 16066. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 724-776-8600 or via email at [email protected]