BMI vs. COHR, CGNX, ITRI, OSIS, DAKT, MLAB, VPG, FARO, VNT, and TYL
Should you be buying Badger Meter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Badger Meter include Coherent (COHR), Cognex (CGNX), Itron (ITRI), OSI Systems (OSIS), Daktronics (DAKT), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), FARO Technologies (FARO), Vontier (VNT), and Tyler Technologies (TYL).
Coherent (NYSE:COHR) and Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and earnings.
Badger Meter has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coherent. Coherent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Badger Meter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coherent presently has a consensus price target of $59.08, suggesting a potential downside of 16.23%. Badger Meter has a consensus price target of $184.20, suggesting a potential downside of 10.66%. Given Coherent's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Badger Meter is more favorable than Coherent.
Badger Meter has a net margin of 14.44% compared to Badger Meter's net margin of -6.22%. Coherent's return on equity of 21.42% beat Badger Meter's return on equity.
83.3% of Coherent shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of Badger Meter shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Coherent shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Badger Meter shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Coherent has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Badger Meter has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Badger Meter had 17 more articles in the media than Coherent. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Badger Meter and 3 mentions for Coherent. Coherent's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Badger Meter's score of 0.05 indicating that Badger Meter is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coherent received 263 more outperform votes than Badger Meter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.38% of users gave Coherent an outperform vote while only 52.57% of users gave Badger Meter an outperform vote.
Summary
Badger Meter beats Coherent on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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