Mueller Water Products, Inc.
MWAMueller Water Products, Inc. is coiled. The quarters are improving, yet the P/E sits at the 6th percentile of its own 4-year range — the business is moving before the market.
The sharpest disagreement: annual EPS moved +64.9% against a +3.0% price move — the market has not yet caught up with the delivery.
The price is building a base (5 weeks in) while the P/E sits at the 6th percentile of its own 4-year range. Underneath, the last four quarters read improving — profit +20.0% year on year, and 142% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash. What settles it: whether the price catches up with earnings that have already moved.
Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. trades at $25.9, building a base and 5 weeks into that stage. That is −1.4% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 39% of a 52-week range of $23 to $30. On relative strength it is currently behind the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view (14 weeks and counting).
Today the stock is building a base — week 5 of stage 1. At $25.9 it trades −1.4% versus its 200-day average and sits at 39% of its 52-week range ($23–$30).
Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.1 years the stock moved +124% while the S&P 500 moved +248% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (14 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-04-24) — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.
What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.
→ The trend is one thing; the bill is another. Are you paying up for it? Next: the P/E sits at the 6th percentile of its own range.
Valuation P/E is the price of $1 of annual profit: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar the company earns in a year.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. trades at 19.6× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 6% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 25.7×, measured across 4.3 years of weekly readings. This places the multiple against the stock’s own record, and says nothing about what the business is worth.
Today's P/E of 19.6× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 6% of the time, against a long-run median of 25.7× measured over 4.3 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.
One caveat before moving on: margins are the best this company has ever printed — cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap. If profitability mean-reverts, today's multiple is higher than it looks.
Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year annual EPS moved +64.9% against a +3.0% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.
The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the +17.5%/yr price move, ~+38.8%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−21.3 pp from the multiple (compressing). The split is the honest approximate (price return minus earnings growth); it makes the rally itself visible instead of hiding it behind the percentile.
Put together: the multiple is low against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.
→ Cheap or dear rides on the earnings. Are they actually growing? Next: the fundamental stage — where the business sits in its arc, and how growth has compounded.
Stage: Mixed Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).
Mueller Water Products, Inc. reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE holding at 18.2% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read is built from 12 quarters across 4 curves, on full evidence.
Why it matters: when the curves disagree, the per-curve reads above matter more than any single verdict.
| 1yr | 3yr | 5yr | 10yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | +9.2% | +4.6% | — | — |
| Profit | +58.3% | +33.4% | — | — |
| EPS | +64.9% | +36.5% | — | — |
| Stock price | +3.0% | +17.5% | +11.8% | +8.1% |
→ The stage names the trajectory. Next: the revenue line that produces it, quarter by quarter.
4-Factor Sector Score
No sector-relative score — Mueller Water Products, Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Specialty Industrial Machinery.
The score is a rank WITHIN a peer set: every metric is scored by percentile against the other members. Without the peer set there is no score to state, so none is invented here.
Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. reported $0.4 B of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +5.6% year on year. That is the 9th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 6.5% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $1.4 B. The last four reported quarters add to $1.5 B.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. reported $0.4 B of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +5.6% year on year. That is the 9th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 6.5% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $1.4 B. The last four reported quarters add to $1.5 B.
FY25 revenue came in at $1.4 B (+9.2% on the year), capping 4 years at 6.5% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed $0.4 B, +5.6% year on year — the 9th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.
Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +6.6% growth against the decade's 6.5% — the current year is running in line with its own long-run rate.
Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +6.6% over the last 4 quarters against +8.5%/yr over the last 8 — stabilising; TTM profit +33.3% vs +49.1%/yr — rolling over.
→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 21.1% this quarter (+1.7 pp YoY).
Operating margin Operating margin is what is left of every $100 of sales after running the business, before interest and tax. It is the cleanest read on pricing power and cost control.
Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s operating margin is 21.1% in the Mar 26 quarter, +1.7 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 8.8% to 18.2%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.
Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s operating margin is 21.1% in the Mar 26 quarter, +1.7 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 8.8% to 18.2%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.
The latest quarter's operating margin is 21.1%, +1.7 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 8.8%–18.2%, and FY25's 18.2% is the top of that band — a record year.
Why the margin moved: operating margin went +1.7 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.7 pp — the gain came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.
Worth repeating from the valuation section: cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap — a record margin flatters every ratio built on top of it.
→ Margins held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit +20.0% in the latest quarter.
Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. earned $0.1 B of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +20.0% year on year. Full-year FY25 profit was $0.2 B. The 4-year compound rate is 28.4%. That is 15.8% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $0.1 B.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. earned $0.1 B of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +20.0% year on year. Full-year FY25 profit was $0.2 B. The 4-year compound rate is 28.4%. That is 15.8% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $0.1 B.
Mar 26 profit was $0.1 B, +20.0% year on year. On the full year, FY25 printed $0.2 B (+58.3%), and the 4-year compound rate is 28.4%.
Why profit moved: revenue contributed +5.6% and the margin +1.7 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.
Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +105.0% vs revenue +6.6%. Profit is growing faster than sales — fixed costs are being spread over a bigger base, and each extra dollar of revenue drops more to the bottom line.
→ Profit rose — but did the cash follow? Next: 142% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash.
Cash flow — the router The P&L says what was earned; the cash-flow statement says what actually arrived. Operating cash flow (CFO) against profit is the cleanest lie detector in the accounts.
Over the last 3 fiscal years 142% of Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY25 that was $0.2 B of operating cash against $0.2 B of profit. After $0.1 B of capital spending, $0.2 B was left as free cash.
FY25: operating cash of $0.2 B against reported profit of $0.2 B, leaving free cash of $0.2 B after $0.1 B of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 142% of profit.
Cash-flow readings here are annual — that is the resolution our series carries, so this section moves once a year.
Why: conversion is measured cleanly, but the working-capital day-counts behind it sit below what we hold — the move is shown without inventing its driver.
Router verdict: the visible cash user is investment — the next section checks what the spending is buying.
→ So follow the cash to where it goes. Next: $0.0 B of building over 3 years.
Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid: debtor days (customers owe), inventory days (stock waits), and the cash conversion cycle (the whole loop, in days of sales).
Mueller Water Products, Inc. does not report the debtor, inventory and payable day-counts a cash cycle is built from, so this section reads the investment side instead. Capital spending ran $0.0 B over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 0.0% of FY25 revenue a year.
Working-capital day-counts are not in our numbers for this stock, so this section reads the investment side — where the cash is being put to work.
On the investment side: capital spending of $0.0 B over the last 3 fiscal years.
The synthesis: the cash is going into capacity, not disappearing into the cycle — the question becomes whether the new capacity earns.
→ Does all this activity actually earn its cost of capital? Next: ROE is 21% and the ROIC − WACC spread is +11.7 pp.
Return on equity Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. With the full capital-employed split not in our numbers, ROE is the cleanest long ladder we can draw here.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. earns a ROE of 19% in FY25. That is up from a trough of 10% in FY21. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by +11.7 percentage points, so growth here adds value rather than only size. The wiring behind it is 13.3% net margin on 0.78× asset turns.
FY25 ROE is 19%, recovered from a FY21 trough of 10% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.
Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY25): 13.3% net margin × 0.78× asset turns × 1.88× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 19.5% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.
The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 20.9% − 9.2% = a +11.7 pp spread. The 9.2% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital — read the sign and the size of the spread, not the decimals. A spread this wide means every dollar reinvested creates more than a dollar of value — the engine compounds.
→ Returns like these — is the balance sheet borrowing to make them? Next: debt-to-equity is 0.42.
Dividend A dividend is cash paid out per share. Dividend per share is the declared amount for the period; the trailing twelve-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. paid $0.27 per share over the last four reported quarters, up 4.5% on a year ago. The most recent declaration was $0.07 for Mar 26. Against the current price of $25.9 that is a trailing yield of 1.04%, measured on dividends already paid rather than on a forecast.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. paid $0.27 per share over the last four reported quarters, up 4.5% on a year ago. The most recent declaration was $0.07 for Mar 26. Against the current price of $25.9 that is a trailing yield of 1.04%, measured on dividends already paid rather than on a forecast.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. paid $0.27 per share across the last four reported quarters, most recently $0.07 for Mar 26. That is up 4.5% against the same quarter a year earlier. Against the current price of $25.9 the trailing twelve months work out to 1.04% — trailing dividends measured against today's price, not a forward estimate.
→ A payout is cash leaving the business. Next: what the balance sheet looks like behind it.
Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.
Mueller Water Products, Inc. carries total debt of $0.5 B against shareholder equity of $1.1 B as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.42. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.65 in FY21 to 0.46 in FY25. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.
Mar 26: total debt of $0.5 B against shareholder equity of $1.1 B — a debt-to-equity of 0.42. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.65 (FY21) to 0.46 (FY25). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.
→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: short interest is 3.4% of the float.
Ownership There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read here, so we read the crowd through short interest — the slice of tradable shares currently sold short, positioned for a fall.
3.4% of Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s tradable float is currently sold short — some money is positioned against it. At typical trading volumes those positions would take about 4.0 days to buy back. There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read for this filer, so the crowd is read through short interest instead.
The latest reading: 3.4% of the float is sold short, and at typical trading volumes it would take about 4.0 days to buy those positions back. Some money is positioned against it. This is a single point-in-time reading — we do not yet hold its history, so we show no trend chart.
Why it sits there: who is doing the shorting, and why, does not travel with the number — the level is shown without inventing its story.
→ One last check: does the safety math agree? Next: the balance-sheet safety line.
Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.
Mueller Water Products, Inc.: the Z-score reads 4.73. A Z-score above roughly 3 reads as safe and below roughly 1.8 as the distress zone, so this sits well clear of distress. It is a distance-to-distress estimate from the balance sheet, not a forecast of failure.
Why it matters: a Z-score of 4.73 sits well clear of the distress zone — the balance sheet is not the risk here.
The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score reads 4.73.
| Company | P/E | Mkt cap | Revenue | EPS | ROCE | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mueller Water Products, Inc. this page | 19.6× | $4B | Mixed | |||
| GE Vernova Inc. | 27.0× | $251B | No read | |||
| Eaton Corporation plc | 37.8× | $150B | Consistent | |||
| Parker-Hannifin Corporation | 36.6× | $125B | Mixed | |||
| Cummins Inc. | 34.4× | $89B | Topping out | |||
| Emerson Electric Co. | 35.1× | $85B | Improving | |||
| Illinois Tool Works Inc. | 25.8× | $85B | Deteriorating | |||
| AMETEK, Inc. | 36.5× | $55B | Mixed | |||
| Rockwell Automation, Inc. | 48.9× | $52B | Improving | |||
| Ingersoll Rand Inc. | 58.6× | $34B | Deteriorating | |||
| Xylem Inc. | 29.7× | $30B | Mixed | |||
| Otis Worldwide Corporation | 18.9× | $28B | Deteriorating | |||
| Dover Corporation | 24.4× | $27B | Improving | |||
| Symbotic Inc. | — | $26B | No read | |||
| ITT Inc. | 35.4× | $18B | Deteriorating | |||
| Nordson Corporation | 32.3× | $17B | Turning around | |||
| IDEX Corporation | 33.2× | $17B | Turning around | |||
| Regal Rexnord Corporation | 47.2× | $14B | Improving | |||
| Graco Inc. | 25.9× | $13B | Mixed | |||
| Crane Company | 41.5× | $13B | Topping out | |||
| Watts Water Technologies, Inc. | 31.7× | $12B | Consistent | |||
| Generac Holdings Inc. | 61.1× | $12B | Deteriorating | |||
| Donaldson Company, Inc. | 25.7× | $11B | Turning around | |||
| Pentair plc | 16.8× | $11B | Mixed | |||
| Chart Industries, Inc. | — | $10B | Deteriorating | |||
| Flowserve Corporation | 27.0× | $9B | Consistent | |||
| A. O. Smith Corporation | 17.1× | $9B | Mixed | |||
| JBT Marel Corporation | 45.4× | $8B | Deteriorating | |||
| Gates Industrial Corporation plc | 27.8× | $7B | Improving | |||
| Enpro Inc. | 152.7× | $7B | Deteriorating | |||
| The Middleby Corporation | 18.5× | $6B | Deteriorating | |||
| CSW Industrials, Inc. | 44.6× | $5B | Deteriorating | |||
| Franklin Electric Co., Inc. | 31.6× | $5B | Deteriorating | |||
| Mirion Technologies, Inc. | 189.9× | $4B | No read | |||
| Kadant Inc. | 35.9× | $4B | Turning around | |||
| Standex International Corporation | 35.8× | $4B | Turning around | |||
| Crane NXT, Co. | 24.5× | $3B | Deteriorating | |||
| NuScale Power Corporation | — | $3B | No read | |||
| ERock, Inc. | — | $3B | — | — | — | — |
| ATS Corporation | 51.6× | $3B | Deteriorating |
Frequently asked questions
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s stock price today?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. trades at $25.9, +3.0% over the past year. The company is valued at $4.0 B. The stock sits at 39% of its 52-week range of $23–$30, −1.4% versus its 200-day average. On the tape, the price is building a base, 5 weeks in. — as of 29 July 2026.
What were Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s latest quarterly results?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. reported revenue of $0.4 B and net profit of $0.1 B for the Mar 26 quarter. Revenue rose 5.6% and profit rose 20.0% year on year. Earnings per share were $0.38. The operating margin was 21.1%, 1.7 pp higher than a year earlier. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s revenue?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. reported revenue of $0.4 B in the Mar 26 quarter, +5.6% year on year. For the full FY25 fiscal year, revenue was $1.4 B (+9.2%). Over the last 4 years revenue compounded at 6.5% a year. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s profit?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. earned $0.1 B of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +20.0% year on year. Full-year FY25 profit was $0.2 B. The operating margin ran 21.1% in the latest quarter. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s market cap?
Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s market capitalisation is $4.0 B at a stock price of $25.9. Market cap is the share price multiplied by shares outstanding, so it is restated whenever the price moves. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s P/E ratio?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. trades at a P/E of 19.6×, at the 6th percentile of its own 4-year range, against a long-run median of 25.7×. This is a comparison with the stock's own history, not a value call — as of 29 July 2026.
Does Mueller Water Products, Inc. pay a dividend?
Yes — Mueller Water Products, Inc. declared $0.07 per share for Mar 26, and $0.27 per share across the last four reported quarters. The latest quarter is up 4.5% on the same quarter a year earlier. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s dividend per share?
Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s most recently declared dividend is $0.07 per share for Mar 26, giving $0.27 per share over the trailing twelve months. Each figure is the amount declared for that quarter as reported, added across four quarters for the trailing total. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s dividend yield?
Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s trailing dividend yield is 1.04%: $0.27 declared per share across the last four reported quarters, against a share price of $25.9. Each quarter’s figure is the amount declared for that quarter as reported, added across four quarters and divided by the latest close. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Mueller Water Products, Inc. overvalued?
On its own history, Mueller Water Products, Inc. looks cheap against its own history: its P/E of 19.6× has been cheaper only 6% of the time in 4 years (long-run median 25.7×). That is a percentile read against the stock's own past, not a price opinion or a direction call. One caveat: margins are the best this company has ever printed — cheap on record margins is not the same thing as cheap. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Mueller Water Products, Inc. growing?
Yes — Mueller Water Products, Inc. is growing: latest-quarter revenue +5.6% year on year, profit +20.0%, and the margin +1.7 pp at 21.1%. The 4-year compound rates are 6.5% (revenue) and 28.4% (profit). The earnings engine currently reads: improving — as of 29 July 2026.
How is Mueller Water Products, Inc. performing?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. is building a base, 5 weeks in. Its latest quarter's revenue rose 5.6% and profit rose 20.0% year on year. Against the S&P 500 it has been behind on a trailing-13-week view for 14 weeks. This describes what the data did, not a rating. — as of 29 July 2026.
What stage is Mueller Water Products, Inc. in?
Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE holding at 18.2% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read comes from the last 12 quarters of growth (revenue growth +6.6% latest, profit growth +33.3% latest, eps growth +44.0% latest) plus the ROCE curve, classified by deterministic rules — a trajectory read, not a buy or sell call — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Mueller Water Products, Inc. in an uptrend?
No — the price is building a base (week 5 of stage 1), trading −1.4% versus its 200-day average and at 39% of its 52-week range. Price stages cycle base → advance → top → decline, and the stage names where this stock sits in that cycle — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Mueller Water Products, Inc. beating the market?
Not lately — on a trailing-13-week view Mueller Water Products, Inc. is currently behind the S&P 500 (14 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-04-24), the same metric the week-by-week ribbon on this page draws. Separately, on the cumulative view: over the last 10.1 years the stock moved +124% against the S&P 500's +248% — behind the index over the full window. — as of 29 July 2026.
Will Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s stock price go up?
This page publishes no price forecast for Mueller Water Products, Inc. What it measures instead: the stock price is $25.9, the price is building a base 5 weeks in. Its P/E of 19.6× sits at the 6th percentile of its own 4-year range. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is the market betting against Mueller Water Products, Inc.?
Somewhat — short interest is 3.4% of Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s tradable float, about 4.0 days to cover at typical volumes. A moderate reading: some money is positioned against it. With no quarter-by-quarter holder register here, short interest is the cleanest crowd read we hold — as of 29 July 2026.
Does Mueller Water Products, Inc. have too much debt?
It is moderate — Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s debt-to-equity is 0.42. A year-by-year borrowings ladder is not in our numbers for this stock, so the latest reading is the cleanest hold. Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s capex?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. spent $0.0 B on capital expenditure over the last 3 fiscal years, a figure derived from the change in fixed assets plus depreciation. In FY25 alone that was $0.1 B. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s cash flow?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. generated $0.2 B of operating cash flow in FY25 and $0.2 B of free cash flow after $0.1 B of capital spending. Reported profit that year was $0.2 B, so operating cash ran ahead of profit. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s profit real cash?
Yes — over the last 3 fiscal years, 142% of Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s reported profit arrived as operating cash. In FY25, operating cash was $0.2 B against reported profit of $0.2 B. The cash then goes mostly into building capacity. Cash-flow resolution is annual — as of 29 July 2026.
How financially safe is Mueller Water Products, Inc.?
On the balance sheet, the Z-score reads 4.73 — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the distress zone. That sits well clear of trouble. — as of 29 July 2026.
Where is Mueller Water Products, Inc. in its business cycle?
Mueller Water Products, Inc.'s FY25 operating margin was 18.2%, against a 5-year band of 8.8%–18.2%: the top of the band — a record year. Record profitability is late-cycle territory: every ratio flatters at the top, and the story leans on margins holding. The latest quarter ran 21.1%. Profitability versus a company's own long band is the cleanest cycle clock this page holds — as of 29 July 2026.
What could break the Mueller Water Products, Inc. story?
The sharpest disagreement: annual EPS moved +64.9% against a +3.0% price move — the market has not yet caught up with the delivery. Mechanically, two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day average would end the price trend — that is the exit rule this page tracks — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Mueller Water Products, Inc. a stock worth studying right now?
This is not investment advice. The machine read: Mueller Water Products, Inc. is coiled. The quarters are improving, yet the P/E sits at the 6th percentile of its own 4-year range — the business is moving before the market. The sharpest open question: whether the price catches up with earnings that have already moved. Every number on this page is drawn deterministically from the raw series, with no forecasts and no price opinions — as of 29 July 2026.