Badger Meter
About: Badger Meter Inc is an innovator, manufacturer, and marketer of products incorporating flow measurement, quality, control, and other system solutions serving markets. The company's products measure water, oil, chemicals, and other fluids, and provide and communicate timely measurement data. Badger's product lines include two categories: sales of water meters, radios, software, and related technologies, and water quality monitoring solutions to water utilities (utility water) and sales of meters and other sensing instruments, valves, software, and other solutions for industrial applications in water, wastewater, and other industries (flow instrumentation). It derives a majority of its revenues from the United States.
Employees: 2,140
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
378% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $5.72M | Put options by funds: $1.2M
100% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q2] → 4 (+2) [Q3]
78% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 64 | Existing positions closed: 36
12% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $5.08B [Q2] → $5.69B (+$612M) [Q3]
5% more funds holding
Funds holding: 444 [Q2] → 467 (+23) [Q3]
5% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 158 | Existing positions reduced: 167
3.83% less ownership
Funds ownership: 92.72% [Q2] → 88.89% (-3.83%) [Q3]
Research analyst outlook
1 Wall Street Analyst provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
1 analyst rating
Stifel Nathan Jones 65% 1-year accuracy 44 / 68 met price target | 3%downside $208 | Hold Maintained | 11 Dec 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 11 articles about BMI published over the past 30 days
