Mueller Water Products Inc (NYSE: MWA) is 16.93% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $14.81 and a high of $28.25 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The MWA stock was last observed hovering at around $26.77 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.46%.
Currently trading at $26.31, the stock is 1.62% and 7.31% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.88 million and changing -1.72% at the moment leaves the stock 19.63% off its SMA200. MWA registered 67.37% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 34.44%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $24.5186 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $21.9922.
The stock witnessed a -1.97% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 5.54%, and is 5.83% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 4.14% over the week and 3.00% over the month.
Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA) has around 3400 employees, a market worth around $4.12B and $1.36B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 30.17 and Fwd P/E is 19.51. Profit margin for the company is 10.05%. Distance from 52-week low is 77.65% and -6.87% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (10.49%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 27.08% this year
473.0 institutions hold shares in Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA), with institutional investors hold 98.17% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 156.56M, and float is at 153.05M with Short Float at 1.69%. Institutions hold 96.56% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 15.9 million shares valued at $284.87 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.1902 of the MWA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 13.55 million shares valued at $242.79 million to account for 8.6848 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC which holds 7.83 million shares representing 5.0271 and valued at over $140.26 million, while IMPAX ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP PLC holds 4.0692 of the shares totaling 6.34 million with a market value of $113.54 million.
Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by THOMAS LYDIA W, the company’s Former Director. SEC filings show that THOMAS LYDIA W sold 17,092 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 11 ’25 at a price of $26.77 per share for a total of $0.46 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.13 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 05 ’25, Heinrichs Steven S (Former EVP, CFO, CLO and CCO) disposed off 195,433 shares at an average price of $24.89 for $4.86 million. The insider now directly holds 11,399 shares of Mueller Water Products Inc (MWA).
