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Mueller Industries Inc.
MLI NYSEMueller Industries Inc. is a prominent manufacturing company, specializing in producing a wide array of products made from copper, brass, aluminum, and plastic. The company's primary function is to supply pipes, fittings, valves, and related products that serve a broad spectrum of industries, including plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration, and industrial manufacturing. With its product range, Mueller Industries plays a crucial role in supporting infrastructure development and maintenance projects worldwide. Notably, the company is involved in sectors that significantly impact residential construction and commercial building, helping to ensure that vital systems are installed and maintained efficiently. Founded in 1917 and headquartered in Collierville, Tennessee, Mueller Industries has grown to become a key player within its industry, known for its commitment to quality and reliability. The company's global presence and diverse product offerings enhance its significance in the marketplace, making it a respected supplier and an essential component of various industrial supply chains.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 3.43
Total Equity: $3.24B
Shares: 222,984,000
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.37B
EBITDA: $1.03B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.37B
Revenue: $4.18B
Revenue: $4.18B
Revenue: $4.18B
Total Equity: $3.24B
Tax Rate: 24.4%
Equity: $3.24B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.37B
Current Liabilities: $413.13M
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $0.00
Total Equity: $3.24B
Shares: 222,984,000
Shares: 222,984,000
CapEx: -$68.81M
Shares: 222,984,000
Stock Price: $65.90
Net Income: $765.19M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 2:24pm (8d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $3.8B | $4.0B | $3.4B | $3.8B | $4.2B |
| Cost of Revenue | $2.9B | $2.9B | $2.4B | $2.7B | $3.0B |
| Gross Profit | $830.4M | $1.1B | $986.8M | $1.0B | $1.2B |
| Operating Expenses | $174.5M | $240.4M | $230.8M | $274.0M | $253.9M |
| Operating Income | $655.8M | $877.1M | $756.1M | $770.4M | $958.5M |
| Net Income | $468.5M | $658.3M | $602.9M | $604.9M | $765.2M |
| EBITDA | $701.2M | $920.9M | $796.0M | $823.5M | $1.0B |
| EPS | $4.18 | $5.90 | $2.71 | $2.72 | $3.49 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $4.12 | $5.82 | $2.65 | $2.65 | $3.43 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 11:12am (8d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $87.9M | $461.0M | $1.2B | $1.0B | $1.4B |
| Total Current Assets | $1.0B | $1.5B | $2.0B | $2.0B | $2.4B |
| Total Assets | $1.7B | $2.2B | $2.8B | $3.3B | $3.7B |
| Current Liabilities | $382.4M | $348.3M | $317.1M | $398.0M | $413.1M |
| Long-Term Debt | $1.1M | $1.2M | $185,000 | $0 | — |
| Total Liabilities | $472.0M | $428.4M | $400.6M | $486.5M | $497.1M |
| Total Equity | $1.3B | $1.8B | $2.4B | $2.8B | $3.2B |
| Retained Earnings | $1.5B | $2.1B | $2.6B | $3.1B | $3.8B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 2:24pm (8d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $311.7M | $723.9M | $672.8M | $645.9M | $755.4M |
| Capital Expenditure | -$31.8M | -$37.6M | -$54.0M | -$80.2M | -$68.8M |
| Free Cash Flow | $279.9M | $686.3M | $618.7M | $565.7M | $686.6M |
| Acquisitions (net) | -$30.2M | $0 | $0 | -$602.7M | $0 |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | -$325.6M | $-204,000 | $-241,000 | $-222,000 | $-185,000 |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | -$4.9M | -$38.1M | -$19.3M | -$48.7M | -$243.6M |
| Net Change in Cash | -$37.0M | $374.9M | $708.9M | -$135.3M | $346.3M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 2:24pm (8d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +5.7% | -14.1% | +10.2% | +10.9% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +34.6% | -11.7% | +5.8% | +16.1% |
| Operating Income Growth | +33.7% | -13.8% | +1.9% | +24.4% |
| Net Income Growth | +40.5% | -8.4% | +0.3% | +26.5% |
| EBITDA Growth | +31.3% | -13.6% | +3.5% | +24.7% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 11:12am (8d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-05 | $0.35 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-13 | $0.35 | — | — | — |
| 2025-12-05 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-05 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2025-06-06 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2025-03-14 | $0.25 | — | — | — |
| 2024-12-06 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2024-09-06 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2024-06-07 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2024-03-14 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2023-11-30 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-31 | $0.08 | — | — | — |
| 2023-06-01 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2023-03-16 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2022-12-01 | $0.13 | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-01 | $0.13 | — | — | — |
| 2022-06-02 | $0.13 | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-17 | $0.13 | — | — | — |
| 2021-12-02 | $0.07 | — | — | — |
| 2021-09-02 | $0.07 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Narrative Economics
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AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-15AI capex is copper-intensive: liquid-cooling loops, chilled-water and refrigeration systems, and grid/transformer buildout pull through copper tube, line sets, fittings and valves — Mueller's Climate and Industrial Metals lines sit directly in that bill of materials, and it holds domestic US extrusion/casting capacity that cannot be conjured quickly.
Mueller sells largely standardized, spec-interchangeable SKUs through wholesalers; as AI-assisted procurement and distributor pricing engines make cross-vendor SKU comparison frictionless, the modest brand/service premium on commodity fittings compresses toward a pure COMEX-spread conversion margin.
Whether AI/electrification-linked demand (data-center cooling, industrial, grid) grows fast enough to offset a residential-construction downcycle. Watch segment mix disclosure: Climate/Industrial volumes and OEM refrigeration order commentary versus plumbing tube pounds shipped.
AI Lens thesis
Mueller's job — moving pressurized fluid and refrigerant safely and cheaply — is physical, code-governed and metallurgical, so cheap intelligence neither performs the task nor lets a customer internalize it; the real AI channel is demand and cost. On demand, AI datacenter and electrification capex is copper-heavy and Mueller's domestic mill footprint plus certified pressure-rated product lines are the scarce, slow-to-build assets that benefit. On cost, vision QC, scrap/alloy-yield optimization, scheduling and freight routing shave a real but bounded slice of a business whose COGS is dominated by metal input, and any savings in a fragmented commodity market are partly competed away. The genuine negative is intermediation: Mueller does not own the buying interface, and machine-driven procurement erodes the last non-price differentiation on interchangeable fittings. Net: low exposure, mildly positive tilt, and the cycle — not AI — still writes most of the earnings.
What the market may be underestimating
Upside Liquid cooling shifts data-center thermal management from air handlers toward copper tube, brazed assemblies and valve packages — a product set Mueller already fabricates for refrigeration OEMs, potentially a higher-mix, stickier channel than plumbing distribution.
Downside Non-AI substitution is the sharper knife: PEX and plastic gaining residential plumbing share compounds with AI-flattened price discovery, so Mueller can win the data-center kicker and still see blended spreads narrow.""
Outcome range spread 34
Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-17 16:27The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
The raw numbers tell a genuinely impressive story that I think most of the prior models are under-weighting. Q2 2026 revenue of $1.43B is up 25% YoY from $1.14B, and the two most recent quarters ($1.19B and $1.43B) annualize to roughly $5.24B — well above the $4.18B FY2025 print. Net income margins have held 16-22% across eight quarters despite copper price volatility, which is not what a "cyclical rolling over" thesis predicts. TTM net income is tracking ~$850M, putting the trailing P/E closer to 17x than the stated 9.6x annual — this is exactly what the ev_to_ebitda anomaly (5.7x annual vs 12.7x TTM) is flagging, and it materially changes the "cheap value stock" framing. The balance sheet is pristine: zero debt, $1.37B cash, 5.9x current ratio, 38.8% ROIC. This is a fortress.
Where I diverge from the synthesis: the composite $80-89 fair value looks anchored to stale annual figures. If you use TTM earnings of ~$850M and apply a defensible 13-15x multiple for a debt-free, 20%+ ROE cyclical leader, you get $77-89 — so the direction is right but the "35% upside" framing overstates the margin of safety because it's comparing today's price to a multiple applied to peak-cycle earnings. The Pre-Flight model's claim of a "50% decline from recent highs" needs scrutiny — I don't see that in the data provided, and if accurate, it deserves an explanation the models haven't given. The Market Forces read of "aggressive insider selling" is overstated: one 2,000-share sale against a wave of awards and a single option exercise is not a distribution pattern. That's noise being narrativized.
The contrarian case is real and the models mostly gesture at it without pricing it. Copper prices have been elevated, and Mueller's margin expansion from 14-15% net margins pre-2022 to 18-21% recently is at least partly a copper-cycle gift, not a permanent structural rerating. If copper mean-reverts 20% and volumes soften with a housing slowdown, you could see net income compress from $850M TTM back toward $500-550M — which at 12x would put the stock at $48-53, not $80. The Q4 2025 dip to $962M revenue and 16% margin (vs Q2 2025's $1.14B/21.6%) shows how quickly the numbers can move in one quarter. The narrative layer correctly identifies this as a macro-risk discount, not a story discount — meaning the rerating catalyst everyone wants requires either copper stability + continued volume growth OR a multiple expansion the market has shown no willingness to grant cyclicals.
Net: I partially agree with the synthesis direction (undervalued) but dissent on magnitude. Fair value on TTM earnings and a cycle-aware multiple is $75-82, not $89. At $65.9, that's 15-25% upside plus a 0.9% dividend — decent but not table-pounding, and you're getting paid to hold a fortress balance sheet while you wait. The accelerating quarterly trajectory is the key tell the bears are missing: Q2 2026's $1.43B is a genuine breakout, not late-cycle noise. But the copper-cycle risk is real enough that I wouldn't chase — I'd want to see either a pullback to the high-$50s or a Q3 print confirming the $1.4B+ run rate before sizing up. The "insider selling" flag is a false positive and should be discounted.
GPT Reading
What stands out is that Mueller is not merely “cheap on trough fears”; it is printing numbers that look closer to a high-quality short-cycle compounder than a no-growth metal fabricator, and the market is still valuing it like a cyclical melting ice cube. Revenue has stepped up from $3.42 billion in 2023 to $3.77 billion in 2024 and $4.18 billion in 2025, while net income stayed astonishingly high at $603 million, $605 million, and then $765 million. The quarterly run-rate is stronger still: the last four quarters sum to roughly $4.66 billion of revenue and about $850 million of net income, implying an 18%+ trailing net margin on a business that most investors mentally bucket as lower-quality industrial distribution/manufacturing. Even if I haircut that margin materially, the current $14.6 billion market cap implies only about 17x this stronger earnings run-rate and 9.6x on reported annual earnings, with no debt and $1.37 billion of cash. For a company generating $686.6 million of free cash flow with just $68.8 million of capex, that is not demanding.
The second thing the numbers say is that the margin structure may be more durable than the market assumes. Gross margin was 29.0% in 2025, operating margin 22.9%, and net margin 18.3%. That is not a one-quarter commodity spike artifact; annual operating income has held between $756 million and $959 million for four straight years despite revenue moving from $3.42 billion to $4.18 billion and despite housing and industrial demand wobbling through that period. Quarterly net margins have ranged from 14.9% to 21.6% over the last eight quarters, which is cyclical, yes, but cyclical around a very elevated baseline. Return on equity of 23.7% and ROIC of 38.8% with zero leverage tell you this is not balance-sheet engineering. The latest quarter, $1.43 billion of revenue and $249.7 million of net income, is especially important because it suggests demand is not rolling over; it suggests the company is exiting a strong period stronger, not weaker.
Balance sheet quality further tilts this in investors’ favor. A current ratio of 5.9, zero debt, and cash equal to nearly 9% of market cap remove the usual objection that a cyclical industrial deserves a deep discount because it could get forced into bad capital allocation in a downturn. Enterprise value metrics matter more here than equity multiples, and at 1.4x revenue and 5.7x EBITDA on annual numbers, you are paying a low multiple for a business with elite cash conversion and optionality. Even if the anomaly on EV/EBITDA is a warning that trailing profitability is normalizing faster than annual figures show, that still likely leaves this business at a reasonable multiple rather than an expensive one. The stock at $65.90 looks priced for a reversion toward 2023 earnings power, yet 2026 quarterly data is running well ahead of 2025.
The best bear case is that Mueller’s earnings quality is more exposed to favorable spreads and price-cost timing than these clean margins imply, and that the market is correctly discounting peak-ish economics. The company did $658 million of net income in 2022, then dipped to $603 million in 2023 before rebounding to $765 million in 2025; that is not a straight-line compounding story, it is a cycle. The quarterly revenue surge to $1.43 billion in June 2026 may reflect metal pricing and inventory dynamics as much as true unit growth. The warning flag on EV/EBITDA, with TTM at 12.7x versus annual 5.7x, is exactly the kind of discrepancy you see when underlying EBITDA has compressed sharply or when non-operating items flatter net income. Insider activity also does not help the bull case; while the disclosed sales are not huge, “unusual selling activity” into strength is the kind of thing a skeptical investor will cite when arguing management sees normalization ahead. If normalized earnings are closer to $600 million than $850 million, today’s valuation is less obviously cheap.
I still weigh the bull case more heavily because the downside case already seems embedded in the stock, while the company keeps posting evidence against it. A debt-free manufacturer with $1.37 billion of cash, 18% annual net margins, and mid-teens to 20%-plus quarterly margins should not trade like a fragile commodity processor unless those margins are about to collapse. To change my mind, I would need to see that collapse start showing up in the actual numbers: quarterly revenue falling back below $1.0 billion, net margin breaking under 13-14% for more than a quarter, or annualized free cash flow slipping toward $450 million without a credible explanation tied to growth investment. Short of that, if the company sustains even $700 million-plus of earnings power, a price in the mid-$60s remains too low; a fairer range is at least the high $70s to mid-$80s.
Grok Reading
The numbers paint a company that has quietly compounded through a commodity-sensitive industrial cycle while the market prices it like a distressed fabricator. Full-year 2025 revenue hit $4.18B with net income of $765M—up from $3.77B and $605M in 2024—and the two most recent quarters accelerated further: $1.19B then $1.43B in sales, delivering $239M and $250M of net income at 20% and 17.5% margins. That is not a business rolling over. Operating margin sits at 23%, ROIC at 39%, and free cash flow of $687M on only $69M of capex leaves a fortress balance sheet with zero debt and $1.37B in cash against a $14.6B equity value. At $65.90 the stock trades at 9.6x earnings and 5.7x EV/EBITDA on the annual figures; even allowing for the flagged annual-versus-TTM EV/EBITDA gap, the cash generation and capital returns are simply too high for a sub-10 multiple unless severe volume destruction is imminent. The 10.5% revenue CAGR and 26.5% recent earnings growth argue the opposite.
What stands out is the disconnect between the income statement trajectory and the multiple. Gross profit has climbed from $830M in 2021 to $1.21B in 2025 while the company stayed net-cash; ROE of 24% and a current ratio near 6x mean Mueller is self-funding growth and still throwing off enough cash to support buybacks or a higher payout without leverage. The valuation synthesis composite near $81–$89 implies roughly 25–35% upside from here, and the raw earnings power supports that math if margins merely stabilize rather than expand. The market thesis that this is priced for a construction recession or copper collapse is visible in the discount, yet the quarterly run-rate already annualizes well above the 2025 base and revenue confidence is tagged as accelerating. That is the story the data tell: a high-ROIC metal fabricator being valued as if the cycle has already broken.
The strongest case against this read is straightforward cyclicality and the EV/EBITDA anomaly. Residential and commercial construction can stall, copper and brass input volatility can compress the 29% gross margin back toward mid-teens historical troughs, and the TTM EV/EBITDA of 12.7x versus the 5.7x annual print suggests either a rapid earnings peak or a market that has already marked the stock higher on a look-through basis. Insider activity shows sales and gifts amid awards, which secondary signals flag as unusual selling; if management is lightening up near cycle highs, the 9.6x PE may simply be the correct forward multiple once earnings normalize lower. Macro headwinds and a mature-earner archetype further caution that incremental growth is capped and the dividend yield of under 1% offers little cushion if volumes drop 15–20%. Those points are real; I weigh them as already discounted into the price rather than as evidence of overvaluation, because the zero-debt balance sheet and $687M FCF give Mueller years of runway to absorb a downturn without diluting or cutting reinvestment.
A sustained two-quarter sequence of revenue below $1.0B with net margins under 12%, or a clear break in copper-related pricing power that drives trailing twelve-month operating income below $700M, would flip the verdict toward fair or overvalued. Conversely, another quarter near the $1.4B revenue / 17%+ net margin run-rate while the multiple stays below 11x would increase conviction that the discount is excessive.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Mueller runs a genuinely healthy operating profile: revenue grew from $3.77B (2021) to $4.18B (2025), gross margin expanded from 22% to 29%, and operating margin sits at 22.9% in 2025 - elite for metal fabrication. Net income rose to $765M and FCF to $687M, with OCF/NI of 0.99x, accruals at 0.5% of assets, Beneish M of -2.48 and Altman Z of 21.62 - a mechanically clean earnings set. Liquid cash of $1.39B against essentially no net debt gives the company complete self-funding capacity; this is a fortress balance sheet by any reasonable measure. The one flag the dilution module raises - 18.4% diluted share CAGR - is almost certainly a 2-for-1 split artifact: shares jumped from 113.1M in 2022 to 227.3M in 2023 and have been flat/slightly declining since (227.9M to 223.0M), with SBC only 0.6% of revenue and buyback/SBC at 340%. That is buyback discipline, not dilution. Insider activity shows only sales in the tape (Christopher $14.2M in April, Goldman $256K in May), with zero open-market buys - worth noting but modest in scale relative to a $14.6B cap and consistent with executives monetizing appreciated equity in a strong tape.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Confirm the 2022-to-2023 share count jump from 113M to 227M was a 2-for-1 stock split (would neutralize the dilution flag entirely)
- 10-K segment mix - copper tube vs. brass rod vs. fabricated products - to gauge commodity vs. value-add revenue share
- Customer concentration disclosures, particularly HVAC OEM exposure
- Copper hedging policy and inventory accounting method (LIFO vs. FIFO) given margin sensitivity
- Whether recent insider sales are under 10b5-1 plans and prior-year insider selling baseline
The e2e composite fair value of $80.78 (signal-adj $89.28, implying 35% upside) is heavily distorted by an anchored-PE of $187.68 that is not credible for a copper-linked cyclical earning peak-cycle margins — discard or heavily discount it. The more defensible inputs are the DCF at $51.33 and the EPV floor at $32.77. A quality-adjusted blend — giving DCF the most weight, EPV as a downside anchor, and a modest premium for the fortress balance sheet and clean earnings quality — lands deserved value somewhere in the $60-$75 range, call it ~$70. Against $65.90, that is a mid-single-digit to low-teens discount: modestly cheap, not deeply cheap.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Whether current gross/operating margins reflect peak-cycle copper spreads or a durable step-change
- Backlog and end-market mix — how much is tied to housing starts vs data-center/HVAC secular demand
- Normalized (mid-cycle) EPS assumption behind the anchored-PE $187.68 output
- Capital return pace — buyback cadence post-2023 share-count reset
- Any one-time gains inflating trailing earnings
MLI is a classic sentiment orphan: minimal narrative intensity, low cult coefficient, no active story for the market to rally around or attack. The archetype is 'steady compounder' but nobody is really telling that story loudly, which means the stock trades on flows and sector rotation more than on a thematic bid. On a Risk-On tape (regime +52, VIX 14.3), a beta-1.12 industrial gets a mild lift from broad risk appetite, but with the S&P near highs and no AI/reshoring/copper-supercycle narrative attached to this specific name, MLI is not catching the speculative flows going into higher-octane stories.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Housing starts and CRE credit prints - a sharp deterioration would activate the dormant bear narrative on this name
- Copper price action and any commentary tying MLI to a supply/tariff story that could give it a narrative bid
- Sector rotation signals - if the market rotates from mega-cap tech into cyclicals/value, low-narrative industrials like MLI benefit most
- Any analyst target revisions or ratings changes - currently quiet, and a break either way would matter more than usual
Mueller's job — moving pressurized fluid and refrigerant safely and cheaply — is physical, code-governed and metallurgical, so cheap intelligence neither performs the task nor lets a customer internalize it; the real AI channel is demand and cost. On demand, AI datacenter and electrification capex is copper-heavy and Mueller's domestic mill footprint plus certified pressure-rated product lines are the scarce, slow-to-build assets that benefit. On cost, vision QC, scrap/alloy-yield optimization, scheduling and freight routing shave a real but bounded slice of a business whose COGS is dominated by metal input, and any savings in a fragmented commodity market are partly competed away. The genuine negative is intermediation: Mueller does not own the buying interface, and machine-driven procurement erodes the last non-price differentiation on interchangeable fittings. Net: low exposure, mildly positive tilt, and the cycle — not AI — still writes most of the earnings.
Verify before trusting this (8)
- Utilization at US tube mills
- Copper spread realization per pound
- Announced domestic capacity additions
- Copper tube pounds shipped trend
- Plastics segment share of revenue
- Code adoption changes for PEX
- US housing starts and repair/remodel spend
- HVAC and refrigeration OEM build rates
Two forces dominate Mueller's world. First, copper: tight supply, tariff-distorted trade flows and elevated pricing lift the revenue line of anyone who fabricates it, and widen spreads for the low-cost, vertically positioned players — this flatters growth optics beyond underlying units. Second, electrification and grid/data-center build demand for copper tube, electrical conductors and industrial piping is a real multi-year demand pull that partly offsets soft residential construction. Against that, rates near 4.6% keep housing starts and remodel spend subdued and commercial construction cautious, which is exactly why the broader fabrication category is contracting while Mueller expands. Net: the world supports Mueller holding a structurally better position than its category, but not repeating a 20%+ growth rate once metal prices stop rising.
Prediction unavailable. valuation-synthesis has no result for MLI — the prediction needs its fair-value anchors.