MSA Safety (MSA) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and MSA Safety published the results on November 2, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. MSA Safety reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and adjusted diluted EPS, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• MSA Safety acquired Autronica Fire and Security on July 9, 2026 for about $563 million, net of cash acquired. Q3 2026 includes Autronica from that date; Q3 2025 does not.
• The release reports its statements in thousands of dollars; figures here are in millions.

Source: MSA Safety Q3 2026 results, November 2, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How MSA Safety splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• MSA Safety's Americas revenue was $338 million in Q3 2026, up 8% from $313 million in Q3 2025, 63% of total revenue.
• MSA Safety's International revenue was $198 million in Q3 2026, up 28% from $155 million in Q3 2025, 37% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

MSA Safety gives a qualitative sales outlook, with no numeric revenue or EPS range.

In its Q3 2026 release (Julie Beck, Chief Financial Officer), MSA Safety said:

“We are maintaining our full-year sales outlook of low-double-digit reported growth”

Source: MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Nov 2, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the MSA forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP net sales and diluted EPS, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

We do not hold a confirmed date for MSA Safety's next report. Companies post the date on their investor relations site a few weeks ahead, usually with the time of the conference call.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Nov 2, 2026

MSA Safety sells safety equipment in three product groups. In Q3 2026 Detection (fixed gas and flame detection and portable gas detection) brought in $233.9 million, 44% of the $536.4 million total; Fire Service (breathing apparatus, firefighter helmets and protective apparel) $173.2 million, 32%; and Industrial PPE and Other (head protection, fall protection and non-core products) $129.3 million, 24%. (MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026)

Net sales rose 15% from $468.4 million, of which 6% was organic and 8% came from acquisitions. The acquired growth is all in Detection, which rose 22% with 2% organic, because Autronica Fire and Security, bought on July 9, 2026, added $39.4 million of sales. Fire Service grew 9% and Industrial PPE and Other 7% organically. (MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026; MSA Safety Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026)

MSA reports two segments. Americas net sales were $338.2 million, up 7.9% with 7.1% organic growth. International net sales were $198.2 million, up 27.8%, but only 2.3% organically: double-digit growth in fire service was partly offset by a mid-single-digit decline in detection that MSA largely attributed to the conflict in the Middle East. (MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026; MSA Safety Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026)

Autronica, based in Trondheim, Norway, makes fire detection, gas detection and alarm systems for maritime, oil and gas, infrastructure and industrial customers. In the Americas most MSA sales go through distributors, and no single customer represented more than 10% of 2025 sales. (MSA Safety Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026; MSA Safety Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 12, 2026)

MSA Safety's GAAP diluted EPS fell to $1.51 from $1.77 in Q3 2026 while adjusted diluted EPS rose 8% to $2.09. Adjusted earnings add back $15.0 million of transaction and digital transformation costs (up from $1.9 million; the 10-Q puts strategic acquisition costs, including Autronica's, at $11.8 million), $8.1 million of acquisition-related amortization, $1.9 million of currency exchange losses and $1.8 million of restructuring charges. (MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026; MSA Safety Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026)

Interest expense rose to $13.8 million from $8.4 million, and long-term debt was $1,088.1 million at September 30, 2026, against $572.7 million at the end of 2025, after MSA borrowed under its credit facility to help pay for Autronica. The effective tax rate was 28.7%, against 24.7% a year earlier, which MSA linked to higher profits in high-tax jurisdictions, foreign audit settlements and nondeductible transaction costs. (MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026; MSA Safety Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026)

Diluted shares outstanding fell to 38.6 million from 39.3 million. MSA bought back $12.7 million of its stock in the quarter and $88.8 million over the first nine months of 2026, and paid $20.8 million of dividends in the quarter. (MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

MSA Safety gives a qualitative full-year sales outlook and no EPS range. In the Q3 2026 release its chief financial officer said MSA is maintaining its outlook of low-double-digit reported sales growth for 2026. The 10-Q breaks that down as mid-single-digit organic growth plus a mid-single-digit contribution from acquisitions, and says organic orders rose by double digits in the quarter. (MSA Safety Q3 2026 release, Nov 2, 2026; MSA Safety Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026)

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The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones MSA Safety's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

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