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TEAM-0.32% 13F +439META+3.01% 13F +2,694RCG-2.04% CLUSTERUTHR-4.03% 13F +425CRWV+4.49% 13F +693CRM+2.92% 13F +1,018CVNA-0.98% 13F +794TPL-0.71% 13F +444NET+4.32% 13F +710MSTR+17.56% 13F +526DELL+4.91% 13F +1,203CRWD+5.68% 13F +1,382ANET+1.22% 13F +1,323COIN+10.14% 13F +475TEAM-0.32% 13F +439META+3.01% 13F +2,694RCG-2.04% CLUSTERUTHR-4.03% 13F +425CRWV+4.49% 13F +693CRM+2.92% 13F +1,018CVNA-0.98% 13F +794TPL-0.71% 13F +444NET+4.32% 13F +710MSTR+17.56% 13F +526DELL+4.91% 13F +1,203CRWD+5.68% 13F +1,382ANET+1.22% 13F +1,323COIN+10.14% 13F +475

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MSA

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MSA Safety Inc

MEDICAL DEVICES · ORTHOPEDIC, PROSTHETIC & SURGICAL APPLIANCES & SUPPLIES · CIK 0000066570

C-SUITE BUYING · 1FORM 144 · 2☆ WATCH

INSIDER NET · 180D

-$3.9M

open-market buys minus sells, Form 4 codes P and S

INSIDER BUYERS · 180D

CONGRESS BUYERS · 1Y

FUNDS ADDED · QTR

240

13F, latest reported quarter

REVENUE GROWTH

+3.7%

XBRL, annual

NET MARGIN

14.9%

SEVEN FACTS, RANKED AGAINST THE SECTOR · RANK IS NOT A FORECAST

INSIDERS

net -$3.9M over 180 days

-$3.9M over 90 days

below 73% of Medical Devices

CONGRESS

no member of Congress has reported trading it

FUNDS

240 funds added or opened last quarter

more than 80% of Medical Devices

REVENUE

+3.7% year over year

below 63% of Medical Devices

MARGIN

14.9% net margin

more than 87% of Medical Devices

BUYBACKS

no share repurchases reported

SHORT

3.4% of shares outstanding short · 4.7 days to cover · settled 2026-07-31

below 51% of Medical Devices

THE SITUATION · EVERY LINE IS ONE RULE OVER ONE DATASET

240 funds added or opened positions in the latest 13F quarter, of 459 holders.

The year, with the filings on it

Total return indexed to 100 over the last 12 months · every marker is a federal filing, placed at its date — hover any marker for the detail

TOTAL 12M RETURN +12.4%

+12.4%12M

INSIDER BUYINSIDER SELLFORM 144

INDEXED RETURN, DIVIDEND-ADJUSTED — NOT A PRICE CHART · LARGE TRADES DRAWN FIRST WHEN A NAME FILES HEAVILY

Live price

Daily candles from TradingView, on their licence — no filings are marked on this one

WHY THIS NAME IS ON THE DESK

Insiders have filed to sell — before selling.

The record shows a net $3.9M sold by insiders over 180 days, 240 funds added last quarter, $4.5M in planned Form 144 sales. Every figure is a federal filing, dated the day it became public.

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Same sector, ranked by filing activity

Sector from the SEC's own SIC classification

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Insider transactions

Form 4 purchases and sales (codes P and S) — grants, option exercises and preferred conversions excluded

Over the last 180 days, MSA Safety Inc insiders sold a net $3.9M of stock across 62 Form 4 purchases and sales, with 1 insider(s) buying. Source: SEC Form 4 filings, as of 2026-09-05.

INSIDER

FILED

VALUE

Vartanian Nishan J.

Director

SELL

2026-08-07

20,000.0

$3.9M

Buck Jonathan D.

Chief Accounting Officer

SELL

2026-08-04

469.0

$89.6K

BECK JULIE A

Chief Financial Officer

BUY

2026-06-11

448.0

$71.1K

Buck Jonathan D.

Chief Accounting Officer

SELL

2026-02-17

1,100.0

$223.8K

Buck Jonathan D.

Chief Accounting Officer

SELL

2025-11-25

333.0

$53.6K

62 TRANSACTIONS ON RECORD

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Institutional holders

13F · holdings as of the latest quarter funds have reported

BlackRock, Inc.

3,331,741.0 sh

$581.7M

VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC

1,828,682.0 sh

$319.3M

Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb L.P.

1,721,415.0 sh

$300.5M

VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

1,708,900.0 sh

$298.3M

STATE STREET CORP

1,626,476.0 sh

$283.8M

SCHEDULE 13D/G

No 5%+ ownership filings

Nobody has crossed 5% with a filing obligation. Absence is a fact here, not missing data.

Planned sales · Form 144

Filed before the sale — intent, not a trade

Howells David J

FILED 2026-08-18

$645.6K

NISHAN J VARTANIAN

FILED 2026-08-07

$3.9M

Fund concentration

N-PORT · funds ranked by how much of THEMSELVES they put in this stock — the conviction number 13F cannot show

SouthernSun Small Cap Fund

$9.6M POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

4.0%

Bahl & Gaynor Small Cap Dividend ETF

$5.4M POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

4.0%

SouthernSun U.S. Equity Fund

$1.7M POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

3.7%

Sequoia Fund Inc

$110.2M POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

3.3%

FMI Common Stock Fund

$54.9M POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

3.1%

LVIP Channing Small Cap Value Fund

$2.7M POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

2.7%

SEC N-PORT, MONTHLY WITH A ~60-DAY PUBLIC LAG · FUNDS ≥ $10M · % = SHARE OF THE FUND'S OWN BOOK

Fundamentals

Annual figures from XBRL filings · pick a past date to see them exactly as the market knew them then — restatements and all

	2025-12	2024-12	2023-12	2022-12
REVENUE	$1.9B	$1.8B	$1.8B	$1.5B
GROSS PROFIT	$871.1M	$860.4M	$852.1M	$673.8M
OPERATING INCOME	$371.8M	$389.2M	$231.3M	$239.1M
NET INCOME	$278.9M	$285.0M	$58.6M	$179.6M
EPS (DILUTED)	7.09	7.21	1.48	4.56
OPERATING CASH FLOW	$363.9M	$296.4M	$92.9M	$157.5M
CASH	$165.1M	$164.6M	$146.4M	$162.9M
LONG-TERM DEBT	$572.7M	$481.6M	$575.2M	$565.4M
DIVIDENDS PAID	$82.3M	$78.8M	$73.5M	$71.5M

SEC XBRL · FISCAL-YEAR PERIODS · AS KNOWN ON 2026-09-05 · NOBODY ELSE SHOWS FUNDAMENTALS AS OF A PAST DATE