MWA vs. FELE, LECO, ITT, WTS, WWD, GGG, IEX, NDSN, RBC, and CR
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), Nordson (NDSN), RBC Bearings (RBC), and Crane (CR).
Mueller Water Products vs. Its Competitors
Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) and Franklin Electric (NASDAQ:FELE) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Franklin Electric shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Franklin Electric shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mueller Water Products pays an annual dividend of $0.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Franklin Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Mueller Water Products pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Electric pays out 27.7% 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. Mueller Water Products has increased its dividend for 10 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.
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.
Mueller Water Products currently has a consensus target price of $26.25, indicating a potential upside of 5.89%. Franklin Electric has a consensus target price of $94.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.16%. Given Mueller Water Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Mueller Water Products is more favorable than Franklin Electric.
In the previous week, Mueller Water Products had 7 more articles in the media than Franklin Electric. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Mueller Water Products and 3 mentions for Franklin Electric. Mueller Water Products' average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Franklin Electric's score of 1.26 indicating that Mueller Water Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Electric has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mueller Water Products 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:MWA) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
