Compare Stocks: GPGI, LECO, MLI, and GGG

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
GGG Graco	$79.74 +1.2%	$78.99	$72.51 ▼ $95.69	$12.76B	0.89	1.60 million shs	1.50 million shs
GPGI Composecure	$12.72 +0.3%	$13.03	$11.16 ▼ $26.78	$3.68B	0.89	1.49 million shs	954,449 shs
LECO Lincoln Electric	$262.57 +1.1%	$272.02	$216.22 ▼ $310.00	$14.15B	1.21	387,203 shs	273,456 shs
MLI Mueller Industries	$61.55 +1.1%	$62.88	$48.44 ▼ $71.12	$13.46B	1.08	1.85 million shs	874,844 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
GGG Graco	+1.15%	+1.24%	+3.97%	+8.53%	-1.62%
GPGI Composecure	-0.09%	-3.48%	-4.03%	-15.65%	+1,272,399,900.00%
LECO Lincoln Electric	+1.11%	-4.71%	+3.76%	+3.70%	+12.73%
MLI Mueller Industries	+1.17%	-2.51%	+1.66%	+7.06%	+25.16%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
GGG Graco	$79.74 +1.2%	$78.99	$72.51 ▼ $95.69	$12.76B	0.89	1.60 million shs	1.50 million shs
GPGI Composecure	$12.72 +0.3%	$13.03	$11.16 ▼ $26.78	$3.68B	0.89	1.49 million shs	954,449 shs
LECO Lincoln Electric	$262.57 +1.1%	$272.02	$216.22 ▼ $310.00	$14.15B	1.21	387,203 shs	273,456 shs
MLI Mueller Industries	$61.55 +1.1%	$62.88	$48.44 ▼ $71.12	$13.46B	1.08	1.85 million shs	874,844 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
GGG Graco	+1.15%	+1.24%	+3.97%	+8.53%	-1.62%
GPGI Composecure	-0.09%	-3.48%	-4.03%	-15.65%	+1,272,399,900.00%
LECO Lincoln Electric	+1.11%	-4.71%	+3.76%	+3.70%	+12.73%
MLI Mueller Industries	+1.17%	-2.51%	+1.66%	+7.06%	+25.16%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
GGG Graco	2.29	Hold	$95.00	19.14% Upside
GPGI Composecure	2.50	Moderate Buy	$15.00	17.89% Upside
LECO Lincoln Electric	2.70	Moderate Buy	$307.22	17.01% Upside
MLI Mueller Industries	3.00	Buy	$75.00	21.85% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest GPGI, LECO, MLI, and GGG Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/8/2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)
10/5/2026	GPGI Composecure	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Hold ➝ Strong-Buy
9/21/2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Buy (B) ➝ Buy (B-)
9/8/2026	GPGI Composecure	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Sell (D-)
8/10/2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$340.00
8/10/2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Underweight ➝ Equal Weight	$257.00 ➝ $283.00
8/10/2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Strong-Buy
8/4/2026	GGG Graco	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Hold (C-) ➝ Hold (C)
7/27/2026	GGG Graco	DA Davidson Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Neutral	$85.00
7/24/2026	GGG Graco	Robert W. Baird Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Set Price Target		$94.00
7/24/2026	GGG Graco	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$92.00 ➝ $96.00

(Data available from 10/14/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
GGG Graco	$2.24B	5.77	$3.71 per share	21.49	$16.05 per share	4.97
GPGI Composecure	$59.82M	61.66	$0.36 per share	35.67	$0.84 per share	15.15
LECO Lincoln Electric	$4.23B	3.38	$11.94 per share	21.99	$26.71 per share	9.83
MLI Mueller Industries	$4.18B	3.26	$3.66 per share	16.81	$14.57 per share	4.22

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
GGG Graco	$521.84M	$3.18	25.07	22.85	2.44	23.53%	19.54%	15.86%	10/21/2026 (Confirmed)
GPGI Composecure	-$136.01M	-$1.97	18.11	10.60	N/A	N/A	7.70%	6.52%	N/A
LECO Lincoln Electric	$520.53M	$10.01	26.23	21.12	1.55	12.35%	39.23%	15.25%	10/27/2026 (Confirmed)
MLI Mueller Industries	$765.19M	$3.84	16.03	N/A	N/A	18.25%	25.68%	21.80%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)

Latest GPGI, LECO, MLI, and GGG Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
10/27/2026	Q3 2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	$2.81	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.17 billion	N/A
10/27/2026	Q3 2026	MLI Mueller Industries	$1.08	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.29 billion	N/A
10/21/2026	Q3 2026	GGG Graco	$0.8260	N/A	N/A	N/A	$588.35 million	N/A
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	GPGI Composecure	$0.14	$0.17	+$0.03	$0.17	N/A	N/A
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	$2.81	$2.93	+$0.12	$2.88	$1.17 billion	$1.22 billion
7/22/2026	Q2 2026	GGG Graco	$0.8080	$0.91	+$0.1020	$0.87	$608.06 million	$590.55 million
7/21/2026	Q2 2026	MLI Mueller Industries	$1.09	$1.13	+$0.04	$1.13	$1.27 billion	$1.43 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
GGG Graco	$1.18	1.48%	+9.46%	37.11%	29 Years
GPGI Composecure	$0.01	0.08%	N/A	N/A	N/A
LECO Lincoln Electric	$3.16	1.20%	+8.95%	31.57%	30 Years
MLI Mueller Industries	$0.70	1.14%	+37.97%	18.23%	5 Years

Latest GPGI, LECO, MLI, and GGG Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
9/4/2026	GGG Graco	quarterly	$0.2950	1.54%	10/19/2026	10/19/2026	11/4/2026
7/22/2026	LECO Lincoln Electric	quarterly	$0.79	1.19%	9/30/2026	9/30/2026	10/15/2026
8/6/2026	MLI Mueller Industries	quarterly	$0.1750	1.1%	9/4/2026	9/4/2026	9/18/2026
8/5/2026	GPGI Composecure	quarterly	$0.0025	0.08%	8/17/2026	8/17/2026	9/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
GGG Graco	N/A	2.99	2.14
GPGI Composecure	N/A	1.14	1.14
LECO Lincoln Electric	0.74	1.98	1.20
MLI Mueller Industries	N/A	4.78	3.76

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
GGG Graco	93.88%
GPGI Composecure	37.56%
LECO Lincoln Electric	79.61%
MLI Mueller Industries	94.50%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
GGG Graco	2.18%
GPGI Composecure	18.40%
LECO Lincoln Electric	1.68%
MLI Mueller Industries	2.30%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
GGG Graco	4,400	161.95 million	158.42 million	Optionable
GPGI Composecure	977	289.89 million	236.55 million	N/A
LECO Lincoln Electric	12,000	54.51 million	53.59 million	Optionable
MLI Mueller Industries	4,832	221.18 million	216.09 million	Optionable

GPGI, LECO, MLI, and GGG Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Mueller Industries, Inc. $MLI Stock: Perpetual Ltd Boosts Position

October 13 at 7:27 AM | marketbeat.com

Mueller Industries, Inc. (MLI)

October 8, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Mueller Industries, Inc. $MLI Shares Purchased by CoreCap Advisors LLC

October 8, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Financial Contrast: CECO Environmental (NASDAQ:CECO) & Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI)

October 8, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Head to Head Comparison: Enerpac Tool Group (NYSE:EPAC) versus Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI)

October 6, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Mueller Industries, Inc. $MLI Stake Increased by Argent Capital Management LLC

October 5, 2026 | marketbeat.com

88,372 Mueller Industries, Inc. $MLI Shares Acquired by CX Institutional

October 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Mueller Industries (MLI) Pulls Back On Fading Momentum, Is It 6% Undervalued?

September 22, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Mueller Industries (MLI) Stock May Be 7% Undervalued On Cash Flow

September 22, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Bank of America Corp DE Takes Position in Mueller Industries, Inc. $MLI

September 21, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) Director Sells 2,000 Shares of Stock

August 28, 2026 | insidertrades.com

Why Is Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) Back In Focus?

August 27, 2026 | kalkinemedia.comK

Mueller Industries: Even Strong Growth Doesn't Justify Great Upside

August 25, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Mueller Industries Inc.

August 20, 2026 | barrons.com

Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) Growth Strength Sparks Fresh Market Interest

August 20, 2026 | kalkinemedia.comK

Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) CEO Sells 70,000 Shares

August 13, 2026 | insidertrades.com

Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) Valuation Signals A Curious Market Divide

August 11, 2026 | kalkinemedia.comK

Mueller Industries Announces Director Retirement and Dividend Declaration

August 10, 2026 | tipranks.com

Mueller Industries, Inc. Announces Retirement of Gary S. Gladstein from the Board of Directors Effective December 31, 2026

August 7, 2026 | businesswire.com

Mueller Industries, Inc. Declares Cash Dividend for Third Quarter

August 6, 2026 | businesswire.com

Mueller Industries Grew Sales 25% With Piping Up 27%. Here's the Backdrop to an Insider Filing

August 2, 2026 | fool.com

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GPGI, LECO, MLI, and GGG Company Descriptions

Graco NYSE:GGG

$79.74 +0.93 (+1.18%)

Closing price 10/13/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$79.86 +0.13 (+0.16%)

As of 07:41 AM Eastern

Graco Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets systems and equipment used to move, measure, control, dispense, and spray fluid and powder materials worldwide. The Contractor segment offers sprayers to apply paint to walls and other structures; two-component proportioning systems that are used to spray polyurethane foam and polyurea coatings; and viscous coatings to roofs, as well as markings on roads, parking lots, athletic fields, and floors. The Industrial segment provides liquid finishing equipment, paint circulating and supply pumps, paint circulating advanced control systems, plural component coating proportioners, and accessories and spare parts; equipment that pumps, meters, mixes and dispenses sealant, adhesive, and composite materials; and gel-coat equipment, chop and wet-out systems, resin transfer molding systems and applicators, and precision dispensing solutions. It also offers powder finishing products to coat powder finishing on metals under the Gema and SAT brands. The Process segment provides pumps to move and dispense chemicals, water, wastewater, petroleum, food, lubricants, and other fluids; pressure valves used in the oil and natural gas industry, other industrial processes, and research facilities; and chemical injection pumping solutions for injection of chemicals into producing oil wells and pipelines. It also supplies pumps, hose reels, meters, valves, and accessories for fast oil change facilities, service garages, fleet service centers, automobile dealerships, auto parts stores, truck builders, and heavy equipment service centers; and systems, components, and accessories for the automatic lubrication of bearings, gears, and generators in industrial and commercial equipment, compressors, turbines, and on- and off-road vehicles. It sells its products through distributors, original equipment manufacturers, and home center channels, as well as to end-users. The company was incorporated in 1926 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Composecure NYSE:GPGI

$12.72 +0.04 (+0.35%)

Closing price 10/13/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$12.64 -0.08 (-0.65%)

As of 07:59 AM Eastern

CompoSecure, Inc. manufactures and designs metal, plastic, composite ID, and proprietary financial transaction cards in the United States and internationally. Its primary metal form factors include embedded, metal veneer lite, metal veneer, and full metal products. The company also offers Arculus Cold Storage Wallet, a three-factor authentication solution, which comprise the Arculus Key card Cold Storage hardware device and companion Arculus Wallet mobile App to keep the Private Key in the Arculus Key card highly secure and store cryptocurrency and digital assets. It serves financial institutions, plastic card manufacturers, government agencies, system integrators, and security specialists. The company was founded in 1910 and is based in Somerset, New Jersey.

Lincoln Electric NASDAQ:LECO

$262.57 +2.88 (+1.11%)

Closing price 10/13/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$262.56 -0.01 (-0.01%)

As of 10/13/2026 07:51 PM Eastern

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells welding, cutting, and brazing products worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Americas Welding, International Welding, and The Harris Products Group. It offers brazing and soldering filler metals, arc welding equipment, plasma and oxyfuel cutting systems, wire feeding systems, fume control equipment, welding accessories, and specialty gas regulators, and education solutions, as well as a portfolio of automated solutions for joining, cutting, material handling, module assembly, and end of line testing, as well as involved in brazing and soldering alloys, and in the retail business in the United States. In addition, the company manufactures copper and aluminum headers, distributor assemblies, and manifolds for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning sector in the United States and Mexico; provides specialty welding consumables, wear plates and maintenance and repair services for alloy and wear-resistant products used in mining, steel, agricultural, and industrial mill applications; and designs and manufactures robotic assembly and arc welding systems that automate the tacking and welding of steel beams. Further, the company serves general fabrication, oil and gas, power generation, process, automotive and transportation, and construction and infrastructure industries, as well as heavy fabrication, ship building, and maintenance and repair markets. It sells its products directly to users of welding products, as well as through industrial distributors, retailers, and agents. The company was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mueller Industries NYSE:MLI

$61.55 +0.68 (+1.12%)

Closing price 10/13/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$61.04 -0.51 (-0.82%)

As of 07:58 AM Eastern

Mueller Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells copper, brass, aluminum, and plastic products in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, the Middle East, China, and Mexico. It operates through three segments: Piping Systems, Industrial Metals, and Climate. The Piping Systems segment offers copper tubes, fittings, line sets, and pipe nipples. It also resells steel pipes, brass and plastic plumbing valves, malleable iron fittings and faucets, and plumbing specialties; and supplies water tubes. This segment sells its products to wholesalers in the plumbing and refrigeration markets, distributors to the manufactured housing and recreational vehicle industries, building material retailers, and air-conditioning original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Industrial Metals segment manufactures brass, bronze, and copper alloy rods; plumbing brass, valves, fittings, and gas assemblies; cold-form aluminum and copper products; machining of aluminum, steel, brass, and cast iron impacts and castings; brass and aluminum forgings; brass, aluminum, and stainless-steel valves; fluid control solutions; and gas train assembles to OEMs in the industrial, construction, HVAC, plumbing, and refrigeration markets. The Climate segment offers valves, protection devices, and brass fittings for various OEMs in the commercial HVAC and refrigeration markets; high-pressure components and accessories for the air-conditioning and refrigeration markets; coaxial heat exchangers and twisted tubes for the HVAC, geothermal, refrigeration, swimming pool heat pump, marine, ice machine, commercial boiler, and heat reclamation markets; and insulated HVAC flexible duct systems. Mueller Industries, Inc. was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Collierville, Tennessee.

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