MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS

MWA Industrials Specialty Industrial Machinery

MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $1.4 billion, up 8.75% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+4.10%
EPS
+26.5%
Free cash flow
+70.9%
Total debt
+0.47%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

24.53 0.49 +2.04%
Market cap
$3.9B
P/E
17.2×
Fwd P/E
15.6×
Dividend yield
1.14%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
4.39
Beneish M
−2.50
Dividend safety
89/100

MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS (MWA) Return on invested capital

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MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 16.7%, up 0.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (16.3%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.69% (fiscal 2015) to 16.3% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median of 5.00% and above the Industrials sector median of 1.86%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 16.3% 4.30
FY2024 12.0% 3.99
FY2023 7.97% 0.78
FY2022 7.19% (1.81)
FY2021 9.00% 0.70
FY2020 8.30% (0.71)
FY2019 9.01% (2.47)
FY2018 11.5% 0.99
FY2017 10.5% 0.60
FY2016 9.89% 3.20

Against its own ten years

Low 6.69% High 16.3%
Ten-year median 9.01%
Current reading's percentile 100

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
MWA MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS 16.7%
SXI Standex International Corporation compare 10.8%
FELE Franklin Electric Co., Inc. compare 9.45%
MIDD The Middleby Corporation compare 8.97%
KAI Kadant Inc compare 8.35%
CSW CSW Industrials, Inc. compare 7.19%
NPO Enpro Inc. compare 5.98%
MIR Mirion Technologies, Inc. compare 1.53%
XE X-Energy, Inc. compare −33.3%
Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median 5.00%
Industrials sector median 1.86%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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