Badger Meter - BMI Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 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, 1 hold rating 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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3 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Badger Meter's stock. Their BMI share price forecasts range from $79.00 to $125.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $94.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.6%.
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Badger Meter's stock was trading at $106.56 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, BMI shares have decreased by 3.9% and is now trading at $102.42.
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Badger Meter saw a decline in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,100,000 shares, a decline of 8.3% from the July 15th total of 1,200,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 121,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 9.0 days. Currently, 3.8% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October 21st 2022.
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Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE:BMI) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 20th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $0.57 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.04. The scientific and technical instruments company earned $137.80 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $132.04 million. Badger Meter had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.83% and a net margin of 12.00%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 12.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.48 EPS.

Badger Meter declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 12th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.225 per share on Friday, September 9th. This represents a $0.90 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.88%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 25th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20.
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Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.79%. 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 36.53%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BMI will have a dividend payout ratio of 30.89% 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 Friday, September 16th 2016. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, August 12th 2016. The newly issued shares were payable 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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (7.07%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.45%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (2.51%), Allianz Asset Management GmbH (1.76%), UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (1.21%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.13%). 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 $102.42.

Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) has a market capitalization of $3.00 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 $2.19 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.