Badger Meter
BMI
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 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
107% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $8.77M | Put options by funds: $4.24M
100% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q1] → 4 (+2) [Q2]
98% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 87 | Existing positions closed: 44
31% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $5.24B [Q1] → $6.86B (+$1.63B) [Q2]
8% more funds holding
Funds holding: 489 [Q1] → 527 (+38) [Q2]
1.62% more ownership
Funds ownership: 93.59% [Q1] → 95.21% (+1.62%) [Q2]
10% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 173 | Existing positions reduced: 192
Research analyst outlook
4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
4 analyst ratings
JP Morgan
Michael Fairbanks
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$230
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Overweight
Initiated
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9 Sep 2025 |
RBC Capital
Deane Dray
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$264
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Outperform
Maintained
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23 Jul 2025 |
Baird
Robert Mason
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$219
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Neutral
Maintained
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23 Jul 2025 |
Stifel
Nathan Jones
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$233
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Hold
Maintained
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21 Jul 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
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