3.60% percent quarterly performance for Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA) is not indicative of the underlying story

On Friday, Mueller Water Products Inc (NYSE: MWA) opened lower -4.42% from the last session, before settling in for the closing price of $26.48. Price fluctuations for MWA have ranged from $14.81 to $28.25 over the past 52 weeks.

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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 6.49% over the last five years. Company’s average yearly earnings per share was noted 27.08% at the time writing. With a float of $153.06 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $156.56 million.

The firm has a total of 3400 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 34.91%, operating margin of 15.59%, and the pretax margin is 14.11%.

Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA) Insider Activity

A key investor’s attitude towards the stock of the Specialty Industrial Machinery industry is another important factor to consider. The insider ownership of Mueller Water Products Inc is 2.28%, while institutional ownership is 92.97%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 06 ’25, was worth 24,890. In this transaction Director of this company bought 1,115 shares at a rate of $22.32, taking the stock ownership to the 6,140 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 09 ’24, when Company’s VP and CAO sold 26,138 for $24.99, making the entire transaction worth $653,306. This insider now owns 9,378 shares in total.

Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.36 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 27.08% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 14.74% during the next five years compared to 12.98% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Mueller Water Products Inc (NYSE: MWA) Trading Performance Indicators

Check out the current performance indicators for Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA). In the past quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 2.38. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.91. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 23.25.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.87, a number that is poised to hit 0.31 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.35 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Mueller Water Products Inc, MWA], we can find that recorded value of 1.2 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 1.5 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 26.52%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.82.

During the past 100 days, Mueller Water Products Inc’s (MWA) raw stochastic average was set at 58.59%, which indicates a significant increase from 50.67% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 71.92% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 36.61% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $23.99, while its 200-day Moving Average is $21.52. Now, the first resistance to watch is $26.38. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $27.46. The third major resistance level sits at $28.03. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $24.73, it is likely to go to the next support level at $24.16. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $23.08.

Mueller Water Products Inc (NYSE: MWA) Key Stats

There are currently 156,600K shares outstanding in the company with a market cap of 3.96 billion. Presently, the company’s annual sales total 1,315 M according to its annual income of 115,900 K. Last quarter, the company’s sales amounted to 304,300 K and its income totaled 35,300 K.