MSAMSA Safety Incorporated
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: cheap against its own history and cheap vs its sector.
Priced for ~4% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 22.5 vs a 30.7 median over 38 quarters (−27% vs median).
Sector median 23.3× across 246 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.
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 growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What MSA's price assumes
MSA Safety Incorporated trades at 22.5× earnings against 24.0× for the median Security & Protection Services name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Security & Protection Services median 24.0 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 3.32
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 5.5%
Free cash flow yield · Security & Protection Services median 4.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +4.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +4.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; revenue has grown +5.2% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 4.62
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 16.6
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 3.53
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Security & Protection Services median P/E11 names
- 24.0
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $354M
- Market capitalisation
- $6.47B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +5.2%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $195.44 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $247.12 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $440.63 |
| 52-week range | $152.07 – $201.92 |
| Today | $180.59 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Security & Protection Services
Ranks #4 of 10 by RyuScore