What to Expect From the Manufacturing Sector This Earnings Season

With earnings season just around the corner, investors are studying the companies that report early, hoping to get a sense of things to come. One such company is MSC Industrial Direct (NYSE: MSM). Because it's an industrial supply company with short sales cycles, its revenue is always going to be closely tied to current conditions in manufacturing, so let's take a look at what its earnings said about what to expect.

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There are four key takeaways for the industrial sector from MSC's earnings presentations:

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