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#24USNYSEMid-cap

MLI

Mueller Industries

$62.30USD

Data as of 2026-07-21

Fair value$59.67
Target$111.22
Loss chance38%Moderate-low

Company attributes

SizeLarge cap
SectorIndustrials
Dividend1.19%
TypeCommon stock

Price

Interactive 5-year price history chart for MLI. Latest close $62.30.

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Pillar breakdown

0–100 percentile rank against the current universe (sector-relative for Quality / Value / Growth / Profitability)

Industrials median (n=257)
  • Quality
    Profit margins & asset efficiency
    73
    Exceptional
    Industrials median (n=257) 50
  • Value
    Price vs fundamentals
    69
    Strong
    Industrials median (n=257) 50
  • Growth
    Revenue & earnings trajectory
    44
    Average
    Industrials median (n=257) 50
  • Momentum
    Recent price strength
    60
    Strong
    Industrials median (n=257) 56
  • Health
    Balance sheet & solvency
    97
    Exceptional
    Industrials median (n=257) 59
  • Profitability
    ROE, ROA, ROIC
    77
    Exceptional
    Industrials median (n=257) 49
  • Technical
    Trend & volatility signals
    65
    Strong
    Industrials median (n=257) 45
  • Risk
    Volatility & drawdown profile
    72
    Exceptional
    Industrials median (n=257) 50
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Exceptional (70+)Strong (55–70)Average (40–55)Weak (25–40)Poor (<25)

Pillars not shown: Sentiment, ML (Phase 5+).

Risk Summary

2 active
Rank gates
  • Sloan accruals — top decile[sloan_accruals_top_decile]Within-sector top decile of accruals / assets (Sloan 1996).
  • Net share issuance — top decile[net_issuance_top_decile]Top-decile net issuance over the trailing year (Pontiff-Woodgate 2008 / Daniel-Titman 2006).

These flags keep the raw composite rank (project Rule 16) but forfeit the entered_top5 badge. Two of them — altman_distress and data_quality_input_corruption — additionally force a cautious recommendation; the others act as Top-5 disqualifiers without dictating the buy/hold/sell label on their own.

Manipulation index
Moderate
25/100
Composite penalty: 2.50 pts (informational; rank uses raw composite)
Also fired — not rank-gating (1)
  • Accruals momentum (Δ TATA > 0.05 over 3y)[accruals_momentum_high]

Rolls up Phase 4.5 earnings-manipulation defenses (Sloan · Beneish · Dechow · REM · restatement · late-filing · earnings- quality time-series) into a single 0-100 risk index. The soft composite penalty (max 10 pts) is informational only — the ranking uses the raw composite score per project Rule 16.

Fair price check

5 different valuation methods each estimate what MLIshould be worth, then we compare to today's price.

Near fair value
Models suggest MLI is priced roughly in line
Today's price
$62.30
Median fair price
$59.67
-4% vs today's price
Of 5 methods:2 say cheap1 say fair2 say pricey
  • P/E multiplesUndervalued
    thinks it's a bargainestimates $111.22, about 79% above today
  • EV/EBITDAUndervalued
    thinks it's a bargainestimates $98.31, about 58% above today
  • P/B multiplesFair
    thinks it's fairly pricedestimates $59.67, about 4% below today
  • Graham (defensive)Overvalued
    thinks it's expensiveestimates $40.40, about 35% below today
  • Residual IncomeOvervalued
    thinks it's expensiveestimates $23.03, about 63% below today

How to read this: “Cheap” = method's fair price is at least 20% above today. “Fair” = within ±10–20%. “Pricey” = at least 10% below today. Outliers (values more than 5× or less than 0.2× today's price) are excluded.

Fair price ensemble

Median fair
$59.67
Margin of safety(vs fair value)
-4.4%
Max (ex-outliers)
$111.22
Tangible BVPS
$12.46
  • Post-split share count adjusted
  • Accruals momentum

Median of all applicable methods (current price $62.30). Per-method estimates + each method’s cheap/fair/pricey read are in the Fair price check above. Outliers above 5× or below 0.2× current price are excluded from the max but kept in the median. See methodology for the 6-method ensemble + 7 defenses.

Defense layer. Flags mark elevated risk, never confirmed fraud. This model cannot catch every manipulation and decays after publication — weigh it against its stated error rates.

Supporting dataRaw fundamentals & data-quality provenance behind the scores above

Raw fundamentals (SEC EDGAR)

MetricValue
Market cap$13.78B
Revenue (TTM)$4.37B
Net income (TTM)$855.69M
Operating cash flow (TTM)$721.63M
CapEx (TTM)$69.45M
Free cash flow (TTM)CFO − CapEx$652.18M
Total assets$3.94B
Total liabilities$581.53M
Stockholders' equity$3.33B
Cash & equivalents$1.38B
Shares outstanding221.14M
EPS (basic)$3.87
EPS (diluted)$3.87
P/E ratio (TTM)16.10

TTM = trailing twelve months. Balance sheet items are point-in-time (latest filing).

Data quality

Latest filed date
2026-04-22
Latest period end
2026-04-17
Filing lag
90 days
Missing metrics
3(gross_profit, cost_of_revenue, research_and_development)

Composite is the 8-pillar weighted score over quality, value, growth, momentum, health, profitability, technical, and risk. Sentiment + ML pillars are reserved for a later phase; until then their weight redistributes pro-rata. Fair price is the median of 6 valuation methods (Graham, P/E / P/B / EV-EBITDA multiples, RIM, DCF) with outliers above 5× current price excluded from the max. Risk-overlay flags annotate only — they suppress the entered-top-5 badge but do not modify the composite.