Mueller Water Products - MWA Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mueller Water Products in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" MWA shares.
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2 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Mueller Water Products' stock. Their MWA share price forecasts range from $11.00 to $13.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $12.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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Mueller Water Products' stock was trading at $10.76 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, MWA stock has increased by 13.3% and is now trading at $12.19.
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Mueller Water Products saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,460,000 shares, an increase of 13.4% from the November 30th total of 2,170,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 974,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.6% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 2nd 2023.
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Mueller Water Products, Inc. (NYSE:MWA) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 7th. The industrial products company reported $0.10 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.04. The industrial products company had revenue of $331.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $319.74 million. Mueller Water Products had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.19% and a net margin of 6.14%.

Mueller Water Products declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 21st. Investors of record on Thursday, November 10th will be given a dividend of $0.061 per share on Monday, November 21st. This represents a $0.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.00%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 9th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.06.
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Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.99%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 8 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 48.98%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MWA will have a dividend payout ratio of 31.58% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Mueller Water Products updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Monday, November, 21st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.32 billion-$1.35 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.30 billion.

14 employees have rated Mueller Water Products Chief Executive Officer Scott Hall on Glassdoor.com. Scott Hall has an approval rating of 33% among the company's employees. This puts Scott Hall in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Mueller Water Products trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MWA."

Mueller Water Products' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Pendal Group Ltd (0.22%), Canvas Wealth Advisors LLC (0.06%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.05%), BLB&B Advisors LLC (0.02%), Dupont Capital Management Corp (0.02%) and Whittier Trust Co. (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Bernard G Rethore, Jerry W Kolb, Lydia W Thomas, Marietta Edmunds Zakas, Michael S Nancarrow, Michael T Tokarz, Shirley C Franklin, Steven S Heinrichs, Suzanne G Smith, Thomas J Hansen and Todd P Helms.
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One share of MWA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.19.

Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) has a market capitalization of $1.90 billion and generates $1.25 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $76.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.49 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,600 workers across the globe.

Mueller Water Products' mailing address is 1200 Abernathy Road N.E.Suite 1200, ATLANTA GA, 30328. The official website for the company is www.muellerwaterproducts.com. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at (770) 206-4200, via email at investorrelations@muellerwp.com, or via fax at 770-206-4235.