Mueller Industries, Inc. (MLI): Price and Financial Metrics

MLI POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where MLI ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 97.99% of US stocks.
• MLI's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• MLI's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 62.1% of US stocks).

MLI Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Mueller Industries Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 98.23% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -92.97%, Mueller Industries Inc's debt growth rate surpasses only 2.1% of about US stocks.
• Over the past twelve months, MLI has reported earnings growth of 199.95%, putting it ahead of 89.63% of US stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Mueller Industries Inc are APAM, TRNS, ODC, SMID, and GDOT.
• MLI's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Mueller Industries Inc's official web site, go to www.muellerindustries.com.

MLI Valuation Summary

• MLI's price/earnings ratio is 10; this is 62.48% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, MLI's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 0.1.
• Over the past 243 months, MLI's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MLI.

MLI Growth Metrics

The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 44.64%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at -10.78%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 83.15%.

MLI's revenue has moved up $1,289,746,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows MLI's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	3,769.345	311.701	468.52
2021-09-30	3,488.839	229.676	379.339
2021-06-30	3,125.696	111.571	251.061
2021-03-31	2,613.272	194.441	170.185
2020-12-31	2,398.043	245.073	139.493
2020-09-30	2,266.031	265.495	131.243

MLI's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• MLI has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 85.84% of graded US stocks.
• MLI's asset turnover comes in at 2.069 -- ranking 1st of 41 Steel Works Etc stocks.
• WIRE, TWI, and UAMY are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MLI.

The table below shows MLI's key quality metrics over time.