Is it safe?
Can MWA take a bad year?
Mueller Water Products, Inc. carries $31M of net debt at 0.10× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$31M
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.10×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.45× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.55
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.42×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $452M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $421M
- Net debt
- $31M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $329M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $280M
- Debt / equity
- 0.42×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.37×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −47%
- Below its 52-week high
- −17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #9 of 44 by Smart Score