Mueller Industries/$MLI
Mueller Industries shares fall as investors digest a Q3 earnings miss and analysts’ concerns that elevated input costs, a weaker-margin product mix and persistent residential weakness could pressure margins.
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About Mueller Industries
Mueller Industries Inc makes copper, brass, aluminum, and plastic products. The company reports three business segments: piping systems, industrial metals, and climate. Piping systems, earning majority of the company's revenue, produces tubes, fittings, rods, valves, and other products and operates various firms world-wide. The industrial metals segment manufactures impacts and micro-gauge, brass rod and copper bar products, and brass value-added products. The climate segment produces items used to create temperature-control goods, including valves, twisted tubes, coaxial heat exchangers, and others. Geographically, it operates in USA, UK, Canada, Asia and the Middle East and Mexico.
- Ticker
- $MLI
- Sector
- Industrials
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- 4,832
- Headquarters
- Collierville, United States
- Website
- www.muellerindustries.com
MLI Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$13B
14.76
$3.90
1.09
$0.65
1.22%
Price and volume
Market cap
$13B
Beta
1.09
52-week high
$71.12
52-week low
$51.20
Average daily volume
1.8M
Dividend rate
$0.65
Financial strength
Current ratio
4.392
Quick ratio
3.363
Long term debt to equity
0.005
Total debt to equity
0.007
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
16.35%
Interest coverage (TTM)
3,140.14%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
1,108.332
Gross margin (TTM)
27.25%
Net profit margin (TTM)
17.27%
Operating margin (TTM)
20.72%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
24.46%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$1,040,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
16.20%
Return on equity (TTM)
26.26%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
14.762
Price to revenue (TTM)
2.505
Price to book
3.56
Price to tangible book (TTM)
3.56
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
18.173
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
5.50%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
3.166
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.13%
Forward dividend yield
1.22%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
20.83%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
16.70%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
11.94%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
9.30%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
12.40%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
24.88%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
31.25%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
22.21%
What the Analysts think about MLI
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Mueller Industries stock.
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Bulls say / Bears say
Mueller posted its ninth consecutive quarter of year-on-year earnings growth in Q3 2026, with diluted EPS rising to $1.00 from $0.94 and net income increasing to $221.2 million from $208.1 million. (Mueller Industries)
Unit volumes grew across most businesses and backlogs increased in every segment, supported by data-centre expansion and other commercial building activity. This is helping offset weak residential construction demand. (Mueller Industries)
Strong cash generation gives Mueller room to invest and return capital: it generated $337 million in operating cash flow and held $1.48 billion in cash and short-term investments at quarter-end. It also repurchased 3.2 million shares during the quarter and raised its dividend. (Mueller Industries)
Revenue rose 31.6% year on year in Q3, but operating income increased only 2.0%; gross margin fell to 25.5% from 31.5%. That weak profit conversion raises questions about how well growth is translating into earnings. (Mueller Industries)
Residential construction remains a headwind: US housing starts were 1.22 million at an annual rate in September, down from 1.32 million a year earlier. Mueller identifies housing and commercial construction as important drivers of demand for its products. (Mueller Industries)
Mueller's profitability depends on the spread between raw-material costs and selling prices, and the company warns that sharp metal-price moves can affect margins. Plastic plumbing products and aluminium-based systems are also substitutes that could take share from its copper products. (Mueller Industries)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 22 Oct 2026.
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