5-Star Mid-Cap Stocks Poised to Pop: MSC Industrial
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, metalworking products distributor MSC Industrial Direct (NYS: MSM) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at MSC and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
MSC facts
Headquarters (founded) | Melville, N.Y. (1941) |
Market Cap | $4.4 billion |
Industry | Trading companies and distributors |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $2.4 billion |
Management | CEO David Sandler COO Erik Gershwind |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 21.5% |
Cash/Debt | $168.5 million / $3.2 million |
Dividend Yield | 1.7% |
Competitors | Align Aerospace Applied Industrial Technologies (NYS: AIT) W.W. Grainger (NYS: GWW) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 98% of the 496 members who have rated MSC believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those bulls, Binjiling, succinctly summed up the MSC bull case for our community: "Superbly run domestic company benefiting from industry consolidation and possibly richer mix of manufacturing coming back to the USA. There is cyclicality in the company, but long term, it is a grower."
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