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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000089439-22-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MLI"
cik: "0000089439"
company_name: "MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2022-10-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T03:10:02.716158+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mueller Industries Q3 EPS $2.74, net sales $944.8M; adjusted op income up 15%

## Summary
- EPS $2.74 down from $3.01; net income $154.5M vs $171.0M.
- Operating income $205.2M; adjusted for prior-year divestiture gain, up 15%.
- Net sales $944.8M, down 3.8% due to divestitures, lower copper prices, and volume declines.
- Cash at quarter end $483.5M, up $395.6M from year-end; generated $312.4M from ops.
- Copper tube and brass rod volumes down 14%; value-added business sales up 22%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000089439-22-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MLI
- cik: 0000089439
- company_name: MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2022-10-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000008943922000056/0000089439-22-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89439/000008943922000056/mli-20221018.htm

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