Mueller Water Products (MWA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mueller Water Products in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" MWA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MWA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Mueller Water Products' shares. Their MWA share price targets range from $15.00 to $19.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $17.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.1% from the stock's current price.
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Mueller Water Products' stock was trading at $14.40 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, MWA shares have increased by 10.4% and is now trading at $15.8950.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 13th 2024.
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Mueller Water Products, Inc. (NYSE:MWA) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 9th. The industrial products company reported $0.13 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.09 by $0.04. The industrial products company had revenue of $256.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $250.64 million. Mueller Water Products had a net margin of 6.35% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.86%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 18.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.13 earnings per share.

Mueller Water Products announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 25th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 9th will be given a dividend of $0.064 per share on Tuesday, February 20th. This represents a $0.26 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.61%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 8th.
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Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.67%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 9 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 52.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MWA will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.10% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) stock in their portfolio include First Trust RBA American Industrial Renaissance ETF (AIRR), SPDR S&P Kensho Intelligent Structures ETF (SIMS), Global X Clean Water ETF (AQWA), First Trust Water ETF (FIW), Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW), iShares Environmental Infrastructure and Industrials ETF (EFRA), Hypatia Women CEO ETF (WCEO) and Invesco Water Resources ETF (PHO).

Mueller Water Products updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 8th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.2 billion-$1.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.2 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' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Perpetual Ltd (0.16%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.09%), Mcdonald Partners LLC (0.07%), Register Financial Advisors LLC (0.00%) and Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Arsdell Stephen C Van, Kenji Takeuchi, Lydia W Thomas, Marietta Edmunds Zakas, Michael T Tokarz, Paul Mcandrew, Shirley C Franklin, Steven S Heinrichs, Suzanne G Smith, Thomas J Hansen and Todd P Helms.
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