Growth Metrics

MSA Safety (MSA) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

MSA Safety (MSA) has disclosed Return on Equity for 16 consecutive years, with 0.21% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Equity fell 54.0% to 0.21% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.21% through Dec 2025, down 54.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.22% for FY2025, 32.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Equity hit 0.21% in Q4 2025 for MSA Safety, down from 0.45% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 0.75% in Q4 2024 to a low of 7.14% in Q4 2022.
  • Historically, Return on Equity has averaged 0.95% across 5 years, with a median of 0.17% in 2022.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Equity: plummeted -717bps in 2022 and later skyrocketed 687bps in 2023.
  • Year by year, Return on Equity stood at 0.03% in 2021, then tumbled by -22847bps to 7.14% in 2022, then surged by 96bps to 0.26% in 2023, then surged by 388bps to 0.75% in 2024, then tumbled by -72bps to 0.21% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Equity for MSA at 0.21% in Q4 2025, 0.45% in Q3 2025, and 3.04% in Q2 2025.