Water infrastructure products manufacturer Mueller Water Products
will be reporting results this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.
Mueller Water Products beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $380.3 million, up 6.6% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Mueller Water Products’s revenue to grow 4% year on year to $362.1 million, slowing from the 15.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.34 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Mueller Water Products has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years by 6.6% on average.
Looking at Mueller Water Products’s peers in the industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Xylem delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.9%, and Tennant reported a revenue decline of 4%, falling short of estimates by 0.9%. Xylem traded up 2.4% following the results while Tennant was down 5.4%.
Read our full analysis of Xylem’s results here and Tennant’s results here.
Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the industrial machinery stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.5% on average over the last month. Mueller Water Products’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $28.50 (compared to the current share price of $25.81).
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