Growth Metrics

MSA Safety (MSA) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

MSA Safety's Return on Invested Capital history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.22% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 31.0% year-over-year to 0.22%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.22%, down 31.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.31%, 11.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q3 2025 was 0.22% at MSA Safety, down from 0.49% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 1.2% in Q1 2024 and bottomed at 0.01% in Q1 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.24% (2021), against an average of 0.28%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Invested Capital soared 122bps in 2024 before it plummeted -93bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.03% in 2021, then surged by 734bps to 0.28% in 2022, then crashed by -52bps to 0.13% in 2023, then surged by 143bps to 0.33% in 2024, then plummeted by -33bps to 0.22% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MSA's Return on Invested Capital are 0.22% (Q3 2025), 0.49% (Q2 2025), and 0.27% (Q1 2025).