How to buy Mueller Water Products stock (MWA)

Mueller Water Products is a specialty industrial machinery business based in the US. Mueller Water Products shares (MWA) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $22.94 – a decrease of 5.6% over the previous week.

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Mueller Water Products stock price (NYSE: MWA)

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Mueller Water Products shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$22.94
52-week range	$13.30 - $26.28
50-day moving average more info button	$23.77
200-day moving average more info button	$19.76
Wall St. target price	$26.33
PE ratio more info button	31.0405
Dividend yield more info button	$0.256 (1.17%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$0.74

Is it a good time to buy Mueller Water Products stock?

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Mueller Water Products price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $22.87 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-5.88%
1 month (2024-11-21)	-8.41%
3 months (2024-09-20)	8.59%
6 months (2024-06-21)	31.44%

1 year (2023-12-21)	61.17%
2 years (2022-12-21)	113.51%
3 years (2021-12-21)	72.24%
5 years (2019-12-20)	111.02%

Is Mueller Water Products stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Mueller Water Products stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Mueller Water Products's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Mueller Water Products's P/E ratio

Mueller Water Products's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 31x. In other words, Mueller Water Products shares trade at around 31x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Mueller Water Products's PEG ratio

Mueller Water Products's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.3316. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Mueller Water Products's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Mueller Water Products's EBITDA

Mueller Water Products's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $276 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Mueller Water Products's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Mueller Water Products financials

Revenue TTM	$1.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	13.44%
Gross profit TTM	$379.5 million
Return on assets TTM	8.35%
Return on equity TTM	15.23%
Profit margin	8.82%
Book value	$5.19
Market Capitalization more info button	$3.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Mueller Water Products share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 26.7% of net profits

Recently Mueller Water Products has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Mueller Water Products shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Mueller Water Products's case, that would currently equate to about $0.256 per share.

While Mueller Water Products's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Mueller Water Products may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Mueller Water Products's most recent dividend payout was on 19 November 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 7 November 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Mueller Water Products share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Mueller Water Products's shares have ranged in value from as little as $13.3028 up to $26.2787. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Mueller Water Products's is 1.335. This would suggest that Mueller Water Products's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Mueller Water Products overview

Mueller Water Products, Inc. manufactures and markets products and services for the transmission, distribution, and measurement of water used by municipalities, and the residential and non-residential construction industries in the United States, Israel, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Water Flow Solutions and Water Management Solutions. The Water Flow Solutions segment provides valves for water systems, such as iron gate, butterfly, tapping, check, knife, plug, and ball valves, which are used to control distribution and transmission of potable water and non-potable water, as well as in water transmission or distribution, water treatment facilities, or industrial applications. It also offers service brass products. The Water Management Solutions segment offers dry-barrel and wet-barrel fire hydrants for water infrastructure development; fire protection systems, and water infrastructure repair and replacement projects; pipe repair products, such as couplings, grips, and clamps used to repair leaks; residential, fire protection, and commercial water metering products and systems; water leak detection and pipe condition assessment products and services; machines and tools for tapping, drilling, extracting, installing, and stopping-off; gas valve products for use in gas distribution systems; and intelligent water solutions, including pressure control valves, advanced pressure management, network analytics, event management, and date logging. It sells its products under the Canada Valve, Centurion, Ez-Max, Hydro Gate, Hydro-Guard, HYMAX, HYMAX VERSA, Jones, Krausz, Milliken, Mueller Systems, Mueller, Pratt, Pratt Industrial, Repamax, Repaflex, Singer, Echologics, Echoshore, ePulse, Hersey, LeakFinderRT, Sentryx, and U.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Mueller Water Products is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 1.888% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by insiders and 95.272% by institutions. When does the fiscal year end for Mueller Water Products?
Mueller Water Products's fiscal year ends in September. Where is Mueller Water Products based?
Mueller Water Products's address is: 1200 Abernathy Road N.E., Atlanta, GA, United States, 30328 What is Mueller Water Products's ISIN number?
Mueller Water Products's international securities identification number is: US6247581084 What is Mueller Water Products's CUSIP number?
Mueller Water Products's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 624758207