Badger Meter - BMI Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Badger Meter in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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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4 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Badger Meter's stock. Their BMI share price forecasts range from $80.00 to $125.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $99.33 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.1%.
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Badger Meter's stock was trading at $106.56 at the start of the year. Since then, BMI stock has increased by 7.2% and is now trading at $114.25.
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Badger Meter saw a drop in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,030,000 shares, a drop of 7.2% from the October 31st total of 1,110,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 147,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.0 days. Currently, 3.5% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, January 27th 2023.
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Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE:BMI) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 19th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $0.61 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.57 by $0.04. The scientific and technical instruments company earned $148 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $137.78 million. Badger Meter had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.04% and a net margin of 11.96%. The firm's revenue was up 15.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.54 EPS.

Badger Meter declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 11th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 25th will be paid a dividend of $0.225 per share on Friday, December 9th. This represents a $0.90 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.79%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 23rd.
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Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.78%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 29 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 39.82%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BMI will have a dividend payout ratio of 35.02% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 issued 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.

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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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (17.25%), Vanguard Group Inc. (11.91%), State Street Corp (7.16%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (4.05%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.87%) and Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (2.45%). Insiders that own company stock include Fred J Begale, Gail A Lione, Gregory M Gomez, Kimberly K Stoll, Richard A Meeusen and William R A Bergum.
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One share of BMI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $114.25.

Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) has a market capitalization of $3.34 billion and generates $505.20 million in revenue each year. The scientific and technical instruments company earns $60.88 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.26 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,837 workers across the globe.

Badger Meter's mailing address is 4545 WEST BROWN DEER ROAD, MILWAUKEE WI, 53223. The official website for the company is www.badgermeter.com. The scientific and technical instruments company can be reached via phone at (414) 355-0400, via email at investors@badgermeter.com, or via fax at 414-355-7499.