secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     MSA Safety Inc (MSA)
CIK:        0000066570
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000066570-22-000010
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

MSA Q1 sales +9% constant currency; adj EPS $1.10 vs $0.95 YoY
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- Total sales $331M (+7% reported, +9% constant currency); organic +4%, acquisitions +5%.
- GAAP EPS $0.90; adjusted EPS $1.10 vs $0.95 YoY; GAAP op margin 12.9%, adjusted 16.3%.
- Orders up double digits; book-to-bill 1.2x; record backlog; operating cash flow $24.5M (vs $45.6M).
- Americas sales $225.6M; adj op margin 23.2% (up from 21.7%); International adj op margin 8.6%.
- New product launches: ALTAIR io 4 wearable (shipping May) and V-Gard C1 hard hat with thermal barrier.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657022000010/0000066570-22-000010-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657022000010/msa-20220427.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000066570-22-000010

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