MWA vs. PNR, GGG, IEX, SWK, NDSN, WWD, ITT, LECO, RBC, and CR
Should you be buying Mueller Water Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Water Products include Pentair (PNR), Graco (GGG), IDEX (IEX), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Nordson (NDSN), Woodward (WWD), ITT (ITT), Lincoln Electric (LECO), RBC Bearings (RBC), and Crane (CR). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Mueller Water Products vs.
Pentair (NYSE:PNR) and Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Pentair presently has a consensus target price of $112.27, indicating a potential upside of 29.40%. Mueller Water Products has a consensus target price of $25.80, indicating a potential upside of 1.15%. Given Pentair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pentair is more favorable than Mueller Water Products.
In the previous week, Pentair had 16 more articles in the media than Mueller Water Products. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Pentair and 12 mentions for Mueller Water Products. Mueller Water Products' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Pentair's score of 1.08 indicating that Mueller Water Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.4% of Pentair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Pentair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pentair received 212 more outperform votes than Mueller Water Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.37% of users gave Mueller Water Products an outperform vote while only 57.44% of users gave Pentair an outperform vote.
Pentair has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Water Products. Pentair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mueller Water Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pentair pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Mueller Water Products pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Pentair pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Water Products pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Pentair is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pentair has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pentair has a net margin of 15.32% compared to Mueller Water Products' net margin of 10.05%. Mueller Water Products' return on equity of 21.18% beat Pentair's return on equity.
Summary
Pentair beats Mueller Water Products on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MWA) was last updated on 3/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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