secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Mueller Water Products, Inc. (MWA)
CIK:        0001350593
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001350593-23-000048
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Mueller Water Products Provides Preliminary Fiscal 2023 Results, Delays Earnings Due to Cyber Incident
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- Preliminary net sales $1.26B-$1.275B, exceeding prior guidance of flat to down 2%.
- Preliminary adjusted EBITDA $197M-$203M, above the expected range of flat to down 5%.
- Returned $48M to shareholders in fiscal 2023 via dividends and $10M in Q4 stock repurchases.
- Total debt $447M, cash $160M, and total liquidity $322M as of Sept 30, 2023.
- Cybersecurity incident disrupted IT systems, postponing the formal Q4 and fiscal 2023 earnings release.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1350593/000135059323000048/0001350593-23-000048-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1350593/000135059323000048/mwa-20231103.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001350593-23-000048

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