Forensic Analysis · Trading Companies & Distributors · as of Aug 11, 2026

Msc Industrial Direct Co Inc (MSM)

A forensic read on Msc Industrial Direct Co Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

9.5

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

29.9

P / E (ttm)

14.4%

ROE

$6.9B

Market cap

2.81%

Dividend yield

-1.3%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Msc Industrial Direct Co Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 9.5, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by dividend — suspended.

What the filings flag

suspended

FY2021→FY2023

Dividend — suspended. The dividend has been SUSPENDED — $195M paid in FY2021, then $0 in FY2023. A suspension is a major signal the board is conserving cash; the prior payment history doesn't offset it.

11.4%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 11.4% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 15% — a modest positive spread over its ~8% cost of capital — growth adds value, though not dramatically.

-0.1%/yr

FY2022–FY2025

Share count. Diluted share count changed -0% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (-0.1%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($39M) are about offsetting stock comp ($13M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$3.77B

Revenue Growth YoY-1.3%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+0.7%

Net Margin5.3%

Free Cash Flow$240.9M

Return on Equity14.4%

Debt / Equity0.35x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.