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MSA Safety (MSA) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for MSA, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.45 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How MSA has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.45 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), MSA Safety moved 0.45% on average · correlation 0.16 · higher than 46% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.01 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.44% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.40% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Security & Protection Services · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Security & Protection Services

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against MSA on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — MSA Safety

MSA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
MSA Safety makes protective equipment for workers in hazardous settings: breathing apparatus, firefighter helmets and protective clothing, fixed and portable gas detection instruments, industrial head protection, fall-protection gear, and respirators and eye protection. It sells through distributors and direct channels to fire services, energy, utility, construction and industrial manufacturing customers, under brands including V-Gard and Cairns. The company is based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, and was founded in 1914.
Where it sits in the stack
MSA sits outside our AI-build-out indices; it belongs to the Industrials sector, in the security and protection-services sleeve of our broader universe, supplying safety gear rather than compute infrastructure.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's diary carries no peer group entry for MSA; the comparison the market draws is with Honeywell, which also sells industrial and personal protective equipment.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It is a Russell 1000 constituent; it carries no Closelooknet score and no index seat beyond that, so the diary has not built out coverage on it.
What the diary watches
Whether industrial and construction activity, which drives demand for protective gear, holds up or slows across the sectors MSA serves.

MSA Safety (MSA) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.17%, quarterly · last 0.54 USD on 2026-08-14

Dividends and capital return

What MSA pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.14 USD per share · a 1.17% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +2.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.08 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.54 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-14
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.47 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.00 USD · 2025: 2.10 USD · 2026: 1.61 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-14

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is MSA Safety (MSA)?

MSA Safety trades as MSA on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is MSA in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — MSA Safety is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does MSA trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -1.1% vs the 50-day and +3.9% vs the 200-day average, 12.2% below the 52-week high and +21.8% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 33 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does MSA Safety trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year MSA Safety had a beta of 0.45 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 46% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.44% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does MSA Safety do?

MSA Safety makes protective equipment for workers in hazardous settings: breathing apparatus, firefighter helmets and protective clothing, fixed and portable gas detection instruments, industrial head protection, fall-protection gear, and respirators and eye protection. It sells through distributors and direct channels to fire services, energy, utility, construction and industrial manufacturing customers, under brands including V-Gard and Cairns. The company is based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, and was founded in 1914. Closelooknet's diary carries no peer group entry for MSA; the comparison the market draws is with Honeywell, which also sells industrial and personal protective equipment.

Where does MSA Safety sit in the AI build-out?

MSA sits outside our AI-build-out indices; it belongs to the Industrials sector, in the security and protection-services sleeve of our broader universe, supplying safety gear rather than compute infrastructure. It is a Russell 1000 constituent; it carries no Closelooknet score and no index seat beyond that, so the diary has not built out coverage on it.

Does MSA Safety pay a dividend?

MSA Safety has paid 2.14 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.17% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.54 USD on 2026-08-14. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for MSA, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Security & Protection Services, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.