Mueller Water Products, Inc. (MWA)

Water valves, hydrants and meters maker, 83% U.S. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 19, 2025. Ranked 166 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Mueller Water Products states about 3,500 employees, 83% in the United States and 42% of those union, making valves and hydrants read at the fabricated metal group with its foundries and its metering technologies read apart, by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 27% now, 33% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 13% people work and 53% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 64% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 30% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,500 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). 83% of about 3,500 employees work in the United States, the filing states.

The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we employed approximately 3,500 people, 83% of whom work in the United States.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,500 employees, 83% in the United States; about 42% of the U.S. workforce under collective bargaining agreements (about 35% of the whole); U.S. turnover about 20% in fiscal 2025; pay targeted at or above the market median; fiscal year ends September 30.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• The Timken Company (TKR, 19,000 employees)28% now, 36% by 2028
• Masco Corporation (MAS, 18,000 employees)28% now, 34% by 2028
• Allegion plc (ALLE, 13,300 employees)28% now, 33% by 2028
• Snap-on Incorporated (SNA, 13,000 employees)35% now, 45% by 2028
• Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (FBIN, 10,000 employees)26% now, 31% by 2028
• Olin Corporation (OLN, 7,849 employees)30% now, 37% by 2028
• Crane Company (CR, 7,100 employees)30% now, 40% by 2028
• Edgewell Personal Care Company (EPC, 6,700 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

14 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it is in the initial stages of incorporating AI into its operations, products, services and solutions and that AI presents risks and challenges, in 14 sentences.

• “Such breaches may also impair our ability to protect the privacy of customer data, result in product development delays, compromise confidential or technical business information harming our reputation, result in theft or misuse of our intellectual property or other assets, or otherwise adversely affect our business. 16 Table of Contents Index to Financial Statements Challenges and uncertaintie...”
• “We are in the initial stages of incorporating AI into our operations and our products, services and solutions.”
• “AI presents risks and challenges that could adversely impact our business.”
• “AI, especially during the early stages of the development and use, carries inherent risks with no guarantee that AI will enhance or improve our operations, products, services or solutions.”
• “Ineffective or inadequate AI development or deployment practices could result in unintended consequences.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 202514median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The three-way split is by description (c); the filing counts no employees by segment or plant.
• The union share is derived from the stated 42% of the U.S. workforce and the 83% U.S. share.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001350593-25-000066, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.