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$25.12 +0.37 (+1.47%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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MWA vs. FELE, LECO, ITT, WTS, WWD, GGG, IEX, RBC, NDSN, and SWK

Should you be buying Mueller Water Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Water Products include Franklin Electric (FELE), Lincoln Electric (LECO), ITT (ITT), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Woodward (WWD), Graco (GGG), IDEX (IEX), RBC Bearings (RBC), Nordson (NDSN), and Stanley Black & Decker (SWK).

Mueller Water Products vs. Its Competitors

Franklin Electric (NASDAQ:FELE) and Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Franklin Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Water Products. Franklin Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mueller Water Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Franklin Electric$2.02B2.10$180.31M$3.8224.32
Mueller Water Products$1.31B2.99$115.90M$0.9127.60

Franklin Electric presently has a consensus target price of $94.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.19%. Mueller Water Products has a consensus target price of $26.25, suggesting a potential upside of 4.52%. Given Mueller Water Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mueller Water Products is more favorable than Franklin Electric.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Franklin Electric
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Mueller Water Products
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

80.0% of Franklin Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Franklin Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Mueller Water Products has a net margin of 10.48% compared to Franklin Electric's net margin of 8.85%. Mueller Water Products' return on equity of 21.31% beat Franklin Electric's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Franklin Electric8.85% 14.08% 9.72%
Mueller Water Products 10.48%21.31%10.86%

Franklin Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Mueller Water Products pays an annual dividend of $0.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Franklin Electric pays out 27.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Water Products pays out 29.7% 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. Franklin Electric has increased its dividend for 33 consecutive years and Mueller Water Products has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Franklin Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Mueller Water Products had 15 more articles in the media than Franklin Electric. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Mueller Water Products and 2 mentions for Franklin Electric. Franklin Electric's average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat Mueller Water Products' score of 1.52 indicating that Franklin Electric is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Franklin Electric
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Mueller Water Products
15 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Franklin Electric has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Mueller Water Products beats Franklin Electric on 11 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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MWA vs. The Competition

MetricMueller Water ProductsSTEEL IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.88B$5.02B$7.87B$21.05B
Dividend Yield1.08%2.94%4.55%3.59%
P/E Ratio27.6018.4725.6928.45
Price / Sales2.991.68101.4671.70
Price / Cash17.8214.0827.9222.92
Price / Book4.833.354.464.68
Net Income$115.90M$371.23M$795.63M$995.51M
7 Day Performance-0.30%2.69%1.43%1.65%
1 Month Performance3.46%4.31%5.66%4.54%
1 Year Performance21.36%24.05%32.03%10.00%

Mueller Water Products Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MWA
Mueller Water Products
4.4955 of 5 stars
$25.12
+1.5%
$26.25
+4.5%
+23.2%$3.88B$1.31B27.603,400Positive News
FELE
Franklin Electric
4.3584 of 5 stars
$90.32
-0.6%
$94.00
+4.1%
-10.5%$4.14B$2.02B23.646,300Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
LECO
Lincoln Electric
3.8459 of 5 stars
$218.22
-1.7%
$222.60
+2.0%
+10.3%$12.18B$4.01B26.9112,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
ITT
ITT
4.5976 of 5 stars
$156.80
-1.5%
$173.25
+10.5%
+16.3%$12.34B$3.63B24.9311,700Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
WTS
Watts Water Technologies
3.8014 of 5 stars
$248.72
-1.0%
$234.20
-5.8%
+25.1%$8.30B$2.25B28.494,800Positive News
WWD
Woodward
4.5258 of 5 stars
$254.15
-1.7%
$232.25
-8.6%
+43.4%$15.34B$3.36B41.069,300Dividend Announcement
GGG
Graco
4.462 of 5 stars
$86.25
-0.6%
$93.00
+7.8%
+0.9%$14.51B$2.11B30.784,300Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
IEX
IDEX
4.6684 of 5 stars
$180.90
-1.4%
$218.13
+20.6%
-8.7%$13.66B$3.27B28.679,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
RBC
RBC Bearings
2.7805 of 5 stars
$392.26
-1.3%
$421.17
+7.4%
+35.1%$12.32B$1.64B51.145,334Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
NDSN
Nordson
4.6763 of 5 stars
$214.30
-1.3%
$254.86
+18.9%
-8.2%$12.11B$2.69B27.558,000Positive News
SWK
Stanley Black & Decker
4.9464 of 5 stars
$69.56
-0.8%
$92.10
+32.4%
-17.4%$10.76B$15.24B28.8648,500News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast

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