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MSC Industrial Direct hikes dividend by 19%

MSC Industrial Direct Co (MSM) will raise its quarterly dividend by 19.0 percent to $0.75 per share in 2019. Last year the metalworking products company hiked its dividend two times by a total of 31.3 percent.

The next dividend is payable on August 6, 2019, to shareholders of record on the close of business on July 23, 2019. The ex-dividend date is July 22, 2019.

Rustom Jilla, executive vice president and chief financial officer, stated, "As you saw this morning, the Board of Directors increased our quarterly dividend, reflecting confidence in our balance sheet and free cash flow, and a higher hurdle rate on acquisitions going forward."

MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. is a North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services. The company serves customers throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, from individual machine shops, to Fortune 100 manufacturing companies, to government agencies such as the General Services Administration and the Department of Defense. MSM initiated its quarterly dividend in 2003.