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Msc Industrial Direct quarterly revenue rises 10.3% to $1.08 billion

Msc Industrial Direct's revenue growth is speeding up. Results for the quarter ended August 29, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 22, 2026.

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Msc Industrial Direct's revenue growth is speeding up: revenue rose 10.3% to $1.08 billion in the quarter ended August 29, 2026, from $978.2 million a year earlier, after 7.8% year over year growth the quarter before.

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What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended August 29, 2026 was $1.08 billion, versus $978.2 million in the same quarter a year earlier, up 10.3%. That is its highest quarterly revenue of the last eight quarters.

Bar chart: Msc Industrial Direct: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ billions by fiscal quarter end, as of Oct 22, 2026. Nov 2024 0.93; Mar 2025 0.89; May 2025 0.97; Aug 2025 0.98; Nov 2025 0.97; Feb 2026 0.92; May 2026 1.05; Aug 2026 1.08. Latest quarter $1.08B, Up 10.3% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Nov 2024: $928.5 million; Mar 2025: $891.7 million; May 2025: $971.1 million; Aug 2025: $978.2 million; Nov 2025: $965.7 million; Feb 2026: $917.8 million; May 2026: $1.05 billion; Aug 2026: $1.08 billion.

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Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Nov 2025 up 4.0%; Feb 2026 up 2.9%; May 2026 up 7.8%; Aug 2026 up 10.3%. On those figures, Msc Industrial Direct's revenue growth is speeding up. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

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This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

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$MSM adjusted close, last 6 months $MSM adjusted close, last 6 months: series rising from 103 to 133 (+28.4%) from 2026-04-27 to 2026-10-21. Scale 100 to 140. 100110120130140 2026-04-272026-10-21 $MSM ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS +28.4% 132.8
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-10-21Indicative, not investment advice.

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  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — Msc Industrial Direct earnings release for the quarter ended August 29, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Oct 22, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — Msc Industrial Direct XBRL financial data (company facts)

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