NYSE:BMIBadger Meter Stock Price, Forecast & News

Badger Meter's stock was trading at $56.81 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BMI stock has increased by 18.3% and is now trading at $67.18.
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5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Badger Meter in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Badger Meter is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 15th 2020.
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Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE:BMI) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 16th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $0.33 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.02. The scientific and technical instruments company earned $91.16 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $98.66 million. Badger Meter had a return on equity of 13.93% and a net margin of 11.15%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 12.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.39 earnings per share.
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Badger Meter declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 7th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.18 per share on Friday, September 11th. This represents a $0.72 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.07%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 27th. This is a boost from Badger Meter's previous quarterly dividend of $0.17.
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Badger Meter shares split before market open on Friday, September 16th 2016. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, August 12th 2016. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Thursday, September 15th 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of Badger Meter stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

5 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Badger Meter's shares. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $71.00. On average, they expect Badger Meter's share price to reach $60.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.3%.
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News headlines about BMI stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Badger Meter earned a daily sentiment score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the scientific and technical instruments company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.
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Badger Meter saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,570,000 shares, an increase of 6.1% from the July 15th total of 1,480,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 155,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 10.1 days. Currently, 5.5% of the company's shares are short sold.
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Badger Meter trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BMI."

Badger Meter's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.62%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.87%), Copeland Capital Management LLC (1.56%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.52%), Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. (1.32%) and Boston Trust Walden Corp (1.05%). Company insiders that own Badger Meter stock include Beverly L P Smiley, Fred J Begale, Gregory M Gomez, Horst Gras, Kimberly K Stoll, Raymond G Serdynski, Richard A Meeusen and Richard E Johnson.
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BMI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Copeland Capital Management LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Advisor Group Holdings Inc., ProShare Advisors LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, BRYN MAWR TRUST Co, and WINTON GROUP Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Badger Meter company stock in the last year include Fred J Begale, Gregory M Gomez, and Richard A Meeusen.
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BMI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Trust Walden Corp, Federated Hermes Inc., Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., TD Asset Management Inc., Strs Ohio, SG Americas Securities LLC, RMB Capital Management LLC, and Swiss National Bank.
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Shares of BMI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of BMI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $67.18.

Badger Meter has a market capitalization of $1.96 billion and generates $424.63 million in revenue each year. The scientific and technical instruments company earns $47.18 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.61 on an earnings per share basis. Badger Meter employs 1,567 workers across the globe.

The official website for Badger Meter is www.badgermeter.com.

Badger Meter's mailing address is 4545 WEST BROWN DEER ROAD, MILWAUKEE WI, 53223. The scientific and technical instruments company can be reached via phone at 414-355-0400 or via email at [email protected]