MLI vs. FELE, AIT, DCI, DOV, ITT, PH, SXI, TEX, TKR, and WTS
Should you be buying Mueller Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Industries include Franklin Electric (FELE), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Donaldson (DCI), Dover (DOV), ITT (ITT), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Standex International (SXI), Terex (TEX), Timken (TKR), and Watts Water Technologies (WTS).
Mueller Industries vs. Its Competitors
Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) and Franklin Electric (NASDAQ:FELE) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Franklin Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Mueller Industries pays out 15.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Electric pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Mueller Industries has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Franklin Electric has increased its dividend for 33 consecutive years. Franklin Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Mueller Industries has a net margin of 17.48% compared to Franklin Electric's net margin of 8.71%. Mueller Industries' return on equity of 24.47% beat Franklin Electric's return on equity.
Mueller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Franklin Electric. Mueller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Franklin Electric shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Mueller Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Franklin Electric shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Electric has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mueller Industries presently has a consensus target price of $105.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.33%. Franklin Electric has a consensus target price of $107.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.22%. Given Franklin Electric's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Franklin Electric is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
In the previous week, Mueller Industries had 4 more articles in the media than Franklin Electric. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Mueller Industries and 4 mentions for Franklin Electric. Franklin Electric's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Mueller Industries' score of 1.29 indicating that Franklin Electric is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Mueller Industries beats Franklin Electric on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:MLI) was last updated on 9/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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