Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. OTIS scored 66.5, MLI scored 77.1 — MLI leads.
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OTIS
Otis Worldwide Corporation
Specialty Industrial Machinery · Quality-Growth
66.5
$65.95 · $25.1B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
10.6
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
CheapestMLI15.8x
Fastest growthMLI+14.8%
Highest qualityOTIS84 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueOTIS-15%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
OTIS
stronger →← stronger
MLI
84
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
83
51
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
84
69
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
66
OTIS is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
OTIS
MLI
$1.7bC+
FCF
$666mC+
+5.2%C+
Rev
+14.8%B+
Negative equity
D/E
0.01A
17.0xA-
P/E
15.8xA-
1.50B
PEG
3.41D
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
OTIS
MLI
15% below
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
22% above
~1%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~13%/yr
+15%
1-yr DCF upside
-26%
+18%
5-yr DCF upside
-18%
+21%
10-yr DCF upside
-5%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Specialty Industrial Machinery · market cap $25.1b. Down 30% from 52-week high of $94.56 — deep drawdown territory. 13 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $86.54 (implying +31% upside).
Moat
FCF converts 113% of net income, helped by cash released from working capital ($185m) that doesn't repeat every year.
Risk
Down 30% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up.
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 OTIS and MLI diverge
On the headline score the gap is 10.6 points in favor of MLI. The widest single difference is Growth, where MLI leads by 33.0 points.
GrowthOTIS 51.1 · MLI 84.1MLI +33.0
ValueOTIS 68.6 · MLI 65.8level
QualityOTIS 83.9 · MLI 82.8level
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 OTIS the better stock?
MLI scores higher: MLI 77.1, OTIS 66.5 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 OTIS differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where MLI leads by 33 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. The other two pillars are close enough to call level, so this is the one place they genuinely separate.
How are MLI and OTIS 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.