Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. BE scored 48.6, MLI scored 77.1 — MLI leads.
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BE
Bloom Energy Corporation
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Quality-Growth
48.6
$280.50 · $82.6B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
28.5
MLI leads
MLI
Mueller Industries, Inc.
Metal Fabrication · Quality-Growth
77.1
$60.71 · $13.4B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
Fastest growthBE+37.3%
Strongest balance sheetMLI0.01
Highest qualityMLI83 / 100
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
BE
stronger →← stronger
MLI
49
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
83
94
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
84
25
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
66
MLI is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
BE
MLI
$625mC+
FCF
$666mC+
+37.3%A
Rev
+14.8%B+
1.72C
D/E
0.01A
26.5xD
P/S
—
0.62A-
PEG
3.41D
—
P/E
15.8xA-
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
BE
MLI
828% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
22% above
>60%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~13%/yr
-92%
1-yr DCF upside
-26%
-89%
5-yr DCF upside
-18%
-85%
10-yr DCF upside
-5%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
BE
Why this score
Diluting shareholders
MLI
Why this score
Raising its dividend
Durable high returns
Diluting shareholders
The companies
BEBloom Energy Corporation
Electrical Equipment & Parts · $280.50 · beta 3.78
Why now
Electrical Equipment & Parts · market cap $82.6b. Down 20% from 52-week high of $351.28 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +37% — in hypergrowth territory. PEG 0.62 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 26 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $283.78 (implying +1% upside).
Moat
ROE 22% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income. $82.6b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Beta 3.78 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return. P/S 26.5x embeds aggressive forward growth — disappointing top-line guidance would compress the multiple hard.
MLIMueller Industries, Inc.
Metal Fabrication · $60.71 · beta 1.09
Why now
Metal Fabrication · market cap $13.4b. 15% off the 52-week high of $71.12. Revenue growing +15%, comfortably above the S&P median.
Moat
Net margin 18% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 24% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately.
Risk
Mature compounder — the risk is paying up for quality at a moment when growth is decelerating. Watch for sequential revenue + margin trends; the inflection from "compounder" to "ex-compounder" is hard to spot until the multiple already started compressing.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where BE and MLI diverge
On the headline score the gap is 28.5 points in favor of MLI. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
ValueBE 24.8 · MLI 65.8MLI +41.0
QualityBE 49.3 · MLI 82.8MLI +33.5
GrowthBE 94.1 · MLI 84.1BE +10.0
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is MLI or BE the better stock?
MLI scores higher: MLI 77.1, BE 48.6 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do MLI and BE differ most?
The widest gap is value, where MLI leads by 41 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are MLI and BE scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.