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Down 7% on Oct 20, and still 10% under its Oct 19 close.
Up 306% over the five years to Nov 9 while the S&P 500 rose 72%; down 7% on Oct 20.
7 reasons, from its filings, with the timeline, for Pro members.
| Holding it back | Below a falling 200-day average |
| Latest filing | 8-K, Nov 9 |
Fri Dec 4: Ex-dividend, $0.175 a shareAt the open. Pays Dec 18.
After its last 4 reports it closed -1.3% on average, higher 3 of 4 times.
Below Averagefor quality, not price, 1 of 14 chart checks firingWhat the Quality Score means
MLI is #4 of 4 by Quality Score.
| Rank | Stock | Quality Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 4 |
Net income over four quarters: MLI $864M, HWM $2.05B.
Expected to report Tue Feb 2, before the open (in 84 days).
What an earnings report is: every 3 months, a company tells everyone how much it sold and earned. We read the figures, the outlook, and how the stock moved after.
Sales of $1.4B, 32% more than a year ago; a profit of $1.00 a share, from $0.94.
“For the ninth consecutive quarter, we delivered year over year earnings growth driven by stronger performance across all three of our business segments.”
| Line | Q3 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tube and fittings | $758M | $794M | $591M |
Each quarter's sales and their share of its total. Figures as filed (SEC filing, Oct 21)
No outlook figures read from this release.
Sales grew 12% a year over 5 years, fiscal 2020 to 2025.
Pays $0.70 a share a year.
| Reported | Gap | Reaction | 5 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2026 | +1.5% | +1.3% | -3.4% |
| Jul 21, 2026 | -0.3% | +0.6% | +6.7% |
| Apr 21, 2026 | +1.2% | +0.2% | +0.7% |
Sales grew in four of the last seven years, to $4.2B in 2025. It made a profit in each of the eight years.
RSI 42.6, MACD above signal, below both averages. Not scored.
Its dividends come to 22% of its free cash flow.
| Dividend | $0.70 a share a year |
| Paid out | About $153M a year |
| Free cash flow | $690M |
| Record | Raised each of the last 5 years |
4 insiders sold $29.6M across 8 filings in the last 6 months. No open-market buys on record. The newest:
Officers and directors with a Form 4 in the last 12 months.
In ETFs: MLI is under 0.1% of DGRO and under 0.1% of VTI, the most of the 24 funds Breakaway covers, by each fund's latest filing, Jun 30 to Jul 31, 2026.
Mueller Industries Inc makes copper, brass, aluminum, and plastic products. The company reports three business segments: piping systems, industrial metals, and climate. Piping systems, earning majority of the company's revenue, produces tubes, fittings, rods, valves, and other products and operates various firms world-wide. The industrial metals segment manufactures impacts and micro-gauge, brass rod and copper bar products, and brass value-added products. The climate segment produces items used to create temperature-control goods, including valves, twisted tubes, coaxial heat exchangers, and others. Geographically, it operates in USA, UK, Canada, Asia and the Middle East and Mexico.
MLI scores 2 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average. It is #4 of 4 in Rolling Drawing & Extruding of Nonferrous Metals by Quality Score, with 1 of 14 chart checks firing. Down 7% on Oct 20, and still 10% under its Oct 19 close. Breakaway does not say whether to buy any stock: the score does not know your situation, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.
MLI scores 2 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average (0 to 5). That is #4 of 4 in Rolling Drawing & Extruding of Nonferrous Metals by Quality Score. The score adds up the chart checks, the trend, the company's filed sales, its profits, the news, insider trades, and Congress trades. The section above lists the lines behind MLI's 2.
4 insiders sold $29.6M across 8 filings in the last 6 months. No open-market buys on record. The newest is John B. Hansen, Director, who sold $111K on Nov 2. Every filing, with the scored weight, for Pro members.
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