Both in Materials Manufacturing

Materion vs Mueller Water Products

Over the past year MTRN returned +89.4% and MWA returned −6.6%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.18.

MTRN +89.4% MWA −6.6%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricMTRNMWA
Price$216.84$24.02
Market cap$4.52B$3.75B
Today−2.30%+5.40%
1 month−30.5%+10.9%
6 months+14.5%−11.8%
Year to date+74.4%+0.8%
1 year+87.7%−6.2%
Revenue growth (YoY)+42.2%+4.1%
Gross margin17.0%39.4%
Net margin6.3%17.0%
P/E (TTM)50.1×16.9×
Price / sales2.2×2.5×
Net cash-$433.4M$42.4M
Dividend yield0.27%1.17%
Volatility (60d)60.2%23.5%
Short % of float2.7%3.9%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).