5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Mueller Water Products

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, water infrastructure specialist Mueller Water Products (NYSE: MWA) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Mueller's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Mueller facts

Headquarters	Atlanta
Market Cap	$578 million
Industry	Industrial machinery
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$1.43 billion
Management	CEO Gregory Hyland (since 2006) CFO Evan Hart (since 2008)
Return on Capital (Average, Past 3 Years)	4.0%
Cash / Debt	$61.5 million / $740.2 million
Dividend Yield	1.4%
Competitors	Tyco International (NYSE: TYC) ERICO International
CAPS Members Bullish on MWA Also Bullish on	General Electric (NYSE: GE) Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)
CAPS Members Bearish on MWA Also Bearish on	Gap (NYSE: GPS) Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's), company press release, and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 97.1% of the 1,403 members who have rated Mueller believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include MikeBobulinski and All-Star Teacherman1, who is ranked in the top 10% of our community.

Just last month, MikeBobulinski pushed Fools to ride the powerful wave into water: "Everyone likes water. Infrastructure plays are significant and our economy, when it gets back on a better footing, will see increased activity in infrastructure to both improve existing and to create new paths for critical items like water."

In an earlier pitch, from July, Teacherman1 also said the spigots are slowly starting to open:

They are a good company which got "super whammed" by the housing market. Most of their sales are tied to new home construction. ... For patient investors, they have the potential to pay off big. While they were a spin off a couple of years ago, they are not new at this. They have been around for about 100 years, and will still be around when the economy turns, and new home construction gets back on track.

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