Mueller Water Products Inc. has the ticker symbol MWA and is a member of the Industrials sector as a specialty industrial machinery maker. This is my second report on Mueller Water Products for this Vista portfolio. 

Mueller Water Products, Inc. is a U.S.-based company that manufactures and sells products and services used in the transmission, distribution, and measurement of water. 

The company operates in the business segment of Infrastructure and Technologies. Infrastructure manufactures valves for water and gas systems, including iron gates, butterflies, tapping, and others. 

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Technologies offer water metering products and systems and water leak detection and pipe condition assessment products and services.

It offers products under Echologics, Echoshore, ePulse, Hersey, LeakFinderRT, LeakFinderST, LeakListener, LeakTuner, Mi. Echo, Mi.Data, Mi.Hydrant, Mi.Net, Mueller Systems, and Sentryx brands. 

The company was founded in 1857 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Three key data points gauge dividend equities or funds like Mueller Water Products (MWA):

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

Those three basic keys best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money. 

MWA Price

Mueller Water Products' price per share closed at $14.36 Friday. One year ago its price was $9.13. Price per share has increased about 57% from the middle of last year's COVID market slump. 

Should Mueller's stock trade in the range of $8.00 to $18.00 this year, its recent $14.36 price might rise by $0.64 to reach $15.00 by April 12, 2022. My estimate is however $ 2.89 higher than either the median of nine estimates from analysts tracking the stock or the historic multiple prices calculated by YCharts

MWA Dividends

Mueller's most recently declared a quarterly dividend paid February 22nd is $0.055, which equates to $0.22 annually and yields 1.53% at yesterday's $14.36 closing price. MWA has paid quarterly dividends increasing annually for 6 years.

MWA Returns

Adding the $0.22 annual MWA anticipated dividend to my $0.64 price upside estimate shows a $0.86  potential gross gain, per share, to be reduced by any costs to trade the shares.  

Put little over $1,000.00 today in MWA at $14.36 per share and we'd buy 70 shares of MWA stock.

A $10 broker fee (if charged) would be paid half at purchase and half at a sale and might cost us about $0.14 per share.

Subtract that maybe $0.14 brokerage cost from my estimated $0.86 gross gain per share results in a net gain of $0.72 X 70 shares = $50.40 for a 5% net gain on a $1,005.20 investment.

Mueller Water Products Inc. (MWA) shows a possible 5% net gain including a 1.53% dividend yield. 

Over the next year at this time, a $1000 investment in MWA could generate $15.30 in cash dividends. And a single share bought at yesterday's closing price was $14.36! So, if MWA is your kind of industrials investment, their single share price is on the dollar under the annual dividend income from $1,000 invested. This suggests that now may be a good time to invest in Mueller.

All of the estimates above are speculation based on the past history of Mueller Water Products Inc. (MWA). Only time and money invested in this stock will determine its worth.