Badger Meter Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BMI)

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Badger Meter in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BMI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BMI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Badger Meter's shares. Their BMI share price targets range from $120.00 to $180.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $146.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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Badger Meter's stock was trading at $109.03 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BMI shares have increased by 36.8% and is now trading at $149.11.
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Badger Meter saw a decline in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 957,800 shares, a decline of 5.2% from the October 15th total of 1,010,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 159,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, January 26th 2024.
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Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE:BMI) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 19th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $0.88 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.81 by $0.07. The scientific and technical instruments company earned $186.20 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $179.06 million. Badger Meter had a net margin of 12.78% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.28%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 25.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.61 earnings per share.

Badger Meter announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 10th. Investors of record on Friday, November 24th will be given a dividend of $0.27 per share on Wednesday, December 6th. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.72%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 22nd.
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Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.73%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 31 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 37.24%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BMI will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.24% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) stock in their portfolio include iShares MSCI Water Management Multisector ETF (IWTR), Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF (PSCT), ProShares S&P Technology Dividend Aristocrats ETF (TDV), Global X Internet of Things Thematic ETF (SNSR), Global X Clean Water ETF (AQWA), SPDR S&P Kensho Intelligent Structures ETF (SIMS), Invesco S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW) and First Trust Water ETF (FIW).

Shares of Badger Meter split on the morning of Friday, September 16th 2016. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, August 12th 2016. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Thursday, September 15th 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

21 employees have rated Badger Meter Chief Executive Officer Ken Bockhorst on Glassdoor.com. Ken Bockhorst has an approval rating of 78% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Badger Meter investors own include A. O. Smith (AOS), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Mills (GIS), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), Aflac (AFL), CVS Health (CVS), Ecolab (ECL) and Philip Morris International (PM).

Badger Meter's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Invesco Ltd. (3.49%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.49%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (2.39%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (2.14%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.24%) and Morgan Stanley (1.22%). Insiders that own company stock include Fred J Begale, Gail A Lione, Gregory M Gomez, Kimberly K Stoll, Todd A Adams and William R A Bergum.
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