---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000066570-25-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MSA"
cik: "0000066570"
company_name: "MSA Safety Inc"
filed_at: "2025-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:03:48.898105+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MSA Safety Q3 net sales $468M (+8% GAAP, +3% organic); adj. EPS $1.94

## Summary
- GAAP net income $69.6M ($1.77 diluted EPS); adjusted earnings $76.2M ($1.94 adjusted diluted EPS).
- Free cash flow $100.5M, debt repaid $50M, net leverage at 1.0x, liquidity of $1.1B.
- Americas sales $313.3M (+5% YoY) but segment op income down 3%; International sales $155.1M (+16% YoY) with op income +37%.
- Maintained low-single-digit organic sales growth outlook for 2025; headwinds from US gov shutdown, later AFG grant shift sales to 2026.
- Detection sales $191.2M (+17% YoY); Fire Service $158.7M (-1%); Industrial PPE $118.6M (+9%).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000066570-25-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MSA
- cik: 0000066570
- company_name: MSA Safety Inc
- filed_at: 2025-10-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657025000039/0000066570-25-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657025000039/msa-20251028.htm

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