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. Its 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: 2,210
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
46% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 67 | Existing positions closed: 46
25% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 4 [Q3] → 5 (+1) [Q4]
2% more funds holding
Funds holding: 469 [Q3] → 480 (+11) [Q4]
2.15% more ownership
Funds ownership: 89.05% [Q3] → 91.21% (+2.15%) [Q4]
4% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $10.8M | Put options by funds: $10.4M
0% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $5.7B [Q3] → $5.68B (-$14.5M) [Q4]
3% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 161 | Existing positions reduced: 166
Research analyst outlook
3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
3 analyst ratings
RBC Capital Deane Dray 32% 1-year accuracy 17 / 53 met price target | 31%upside $251 | Outperform Initiated | 27 Mar 2025 |
Maxim Group Tate Sullivan 21% 1-year accuracy 4 / 19 met price target | 28%upside $245 | Buy Maintained | 3 Feb 2025 |
Stifel Nathan Jones 33% 1-year accuracy 22 / 67 met price target | 9%upside $209 | Hold Maintained | 3 Feb 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 5 articles about BMI published over the past 30 days
