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MSA MSA SAFETY INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 553498106 · Sector: Healthcare & Biotech

Cooling

Net holder growth weakened from last quarter

Funds that own it
449
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+2
Last quarter 447 → now 449
How unusual is that
Below average
Stronger than only 45% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

449 funds held MSA at the end of 2026Q2, up 2 from the quarter before. Buying has come off its highs, but funds are not exiting. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $1.9B(YoY +6.5%), the P/E is 23.4x, return on equity is 22.4%. MSA has had 12 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +2.7% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Healthcare & Biotech sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2014Q2: holders=156 2014Q3: holders=157 2014Q4: holders=152 2015Q1: holders=156 2015Q2: holders=164 2015Q3: holders=175 2015Q4: holders=168 2016Q1: holders=161 2016Q2: holders=172 2016Q3: holders=170 2016Q4: holders=186 2017Q1: holders=201 2017Q2: holders=216 2017Q3: holders=224 2017Q4: holders=231 2018Q1: holders=218 2018Q2: holders=232 2018Q3: holders=214 2018Q4: holders=233 2019Q1: holders=249 2019Q2: holders=230 2019Q3: holders=225 2019Q4: holders=246 2020Q1: holders=226 2020Q2: holders=257 2020Q3: holders=259 2020Q4: holders=271 2021Q1: holders=270 2021Q2: holders=268 2021Q3: holders=270 2021Q4: holders=270 2022Q1: holders=260 2022Q2: holders=252 2022Q3: holders=252 2022Q4: holders=270 2023Q1: holders=269 2023Q2: holders=280 2023Q3: holders=308 2023Q4: holders=351 2024Q1: holders=365 2024Q2: holders=366 2024Q3: holders=376 2024Q4: holders=371 2025Q1: holders=376 2025Q2: holders=390 2025Q3: holders=404 2025Q4: holders=409 2026Q1: holders=447 2026Q2: holders=449 -43 -21.5 +0 +21.5 +43 136304472 14Q215Q417Q218Q420Q221Q423Q224Q426Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 12 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q1 Top 10% +1.2% —
2023Q4 Top 20% +6.9% +6.3%
2023Q3 Top 5% -1.3% +7.2%
2023Q2 Top 20% -12.4% -6.3%
2020Q2 Top 20% +6.3% +13.2%
2019Q1 Top 20% -0.7% -2.7%
2018Q4 Top 20% +4.4% +3.2%
2018Q2 Top 20% +5.2% +9.4%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
209
Change in large funds
+13
Total value they hold
$6.1B
Funds buying for the first time
55
Funds that sold out entirely
53
Price change that quarter
+11.2%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
1
Funds holding calls (bullish)
1

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
23.4
EPS (TTM)
$8.04
EPS YoY
+14.7%
Revenue (TTM)
$1.9B
Revenue YoY
+6.5%
Net margin
16.1%
ROE
22.4%
Debt ratio
46.1%
FCF (TTM)
$354M
Dividend (TTM)
$2.13
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2021-09-30: EPS 0.54 2021-12-31: EPS -1.57 2022-03-31: EPS 0.90 2022-06-30: EPS 1.21 2022-09-30: EPS 1.14 2022-12-31: EPS 1.31 2023-03-31: EPS -3.83 2023-06-30: EPS 1.70 2023-09-30: EPS 1.65 2023-12-31: EPS 1.93 2024-03-31: EPS 1.47 2024-06-30: EPS 1.83 2024-09-30: EPS 1.69 2024-12-31: EPS 2.22 2025-03-31: EPS 1.51 2025-06-30: EPS 1.59 2025-09-30: EPS 1.77 2025-12-31: EPS 2.21 2026-03-31: EPS 1.83 2026-06-30: EPS 2.23 0M 255M 511M $M -4.21 -0.88 2.45 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 27 19 291 563 20222023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-294M-74M147M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $65M (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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