MSAMSA Safety Incorporated
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.3×) and margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 21% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is MSA?
MSA Safety Incorporated earns 18% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 9.1 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 21%
Operating margin · Security & Protection Services median 13% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.28×
Cash conversion · 1.14× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −1.7%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 13% |
| FY2021 | 1.6% |
| FY2022 | 16% |
| FY2023 | 13% |
| FY2024 | 22% |
| FY2025 | 20% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 48%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 21%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 16%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 3.5%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.95B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $354M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $314M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 18%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Security & Protection Services
Ranks #4 of 10 by RyuScore