BMI vs. COHR, ITRI, CGNX, OSIS, FARO, DAKT, MLAB, VPG, WTS, and ST
Should you be buying Badger Meter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Badger Meter include Coherent (COHR), Itron (ITRI), Cognex (CGNX), OSI Systems (OSIS), FARO Technologies (FARO), Daktronics (DAKT), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), and Sensata Technologies (ST).
Badger Meter vs. Its Competitors
Coherent (NYSE:COHR) and Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) are both electronic equipment & instruments companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
83.3% of Coherent shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of Badger Meter shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Coherent shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Badger Meter shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coherent presently has a consensus target price of $103.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.50%. Badger Meter has a consensus target price of $236.60, suggesting a potential downside of 2.48%. Given Coherent's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Coherent is more favorable than Badger Meter.
Badger Meter has a net margin of 15.74% compared to Coherent's net margin of 1.73%. Badger Meter's return on equity of 22.35% beat Coherent's return on equity.
Coherent has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Badger Meter has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Badger Meter had 8 more articles in the media than Coherent. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Badger Meter and 2 mentions for Coherent. Badger Meter's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Coherent's score of -0.44 indicating that Badger Meter is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
Badger Meter beats Coherent on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:BMI) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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