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BMI

Badger Meter Inc. Common Stock

Industrials · ·

$137.17

$2.27 (-1.6%)

Market Cap

$3.98B

Day Range

$136.61 - $141.05

52-Week Range

$112.09 - $204.00

Beta

Next Earnings

19.10.2026

BMI is a stock from the Industrials sectorManufacturing, aerospace, defense, and infrastructure — closely tied to capital-investment cycles and economic growth.

🏢 Similar Stocks in the Same Sector

-25.3% (1Y)

Investor Score
63/ 100C+
🟡 Moderate

This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer

📈56CTechnical
💰80A-Fundamental
🚀70BGrowth
💎50C-Valuation
📰62C+News
🏦63C+Quality
⚠️54C-Risk

Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%

🔍 Cross-Check

Overall Score

🟡 Mixed

Technical Trend

🟡 Mixed

Insiders

🟢 Bullish

✅ Why is the score relatively high?

  • 🟢 Operating margin is stable or improving over time
  • 🟢 Debt/equity: 0.00
  • 🟢 Current ratio: 3.36
  • 🟢 Price is above the 50-day average
  • 🟢 MACD histogram is positive — rising momentum

⚠️ What's concerning?

  • 🔴 ATR: 4.0% of price
  • 🔴 Price is below the 200-day average
  • 🔴 Price is below the SAR point — downtrend
  • 🔴 ROC 12 days: -3.6%
  • 🔴 Volume is falling despite the price advance — possible weakening

🚦 Quality & Risk Checks

🟢 Operating margin stability🟢 Conservative leverage🔴 Daily volatility (ATR)🟢 Leverage risk🟢 Liquidity risk

📰 News Trend

Based on real financial news (Finnhub)
🟡 Mixed

Everyone's writing about Badger Meter Inc. Common Stock. News trend score: 62. Reason: 7 of the last 17 articles are positive, versus 5 negative.

News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer

📈 Technical Analysis

Based on the last 252 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.

🟡 Indicators are mixed — no clear bias (4 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 neutral)

Conclusions

  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 50Price is above the 50-day average
  • 🔴Price vs. SMA 200Price is below the 200-day average
  • 🟢MACDMACD histogram is positive — rising momentum
  • 🟢RSIRSI 54.1 — healthy positive momentum
  • 🟡Stochastic%K 66.3 — neutral range
  • 🟡ADX (trend strength)ADX 13.7 — weak trend/choppy
  • 🔴Volume trendVolume is falling despite the price advance — possible weakening
  • 🟢Relative strength vs. S&P 500+8.9% over the last 3 months relative to the index
  • 🔴ROC (rate of change)ROC 12 days: -3.6%
  • 🔴Parabolic SARPrice is below the SAR point — downtrend
  • 🟡CMF (money flow)CMF 20 days: -0.03

Wyckoff Method Analysis

A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.

Markup

The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.

High confidence

Evidence Behind This Read

  • 🟢Rising price trendA 12.0% change over the last 50 days, with no defined trading range.

The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.

🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)

Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.

1️⃣ Market Structure

🔴 Downtrend

The price is below the 200-day average — an environment that mainly favors looking for selling (Short) opportunities, not buying.

2️⃣ Value Zone

🟡 Price far from value zone

The price is currently far from the 50-day average — the method recommends waiting for a "pullback" before entering, rather than chasing prices.

3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)

Method formula: Stop-loss = resistance plusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.

Entry

$140.58

Stop-Loss

$160.82

Risk per Share

$20.24

Direction

Short

Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)

1:2 R

$100.11

1:3 R

$79.87

1:5 R

$39.40

💰 Position Size Calculator

A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.

Suggested Position Size

4 sh.

💰 Financial Health

Profitability

Gross Margin

41.7%

Operating Margin

20.0%

Net Margin

15.5%

EBITDA Margin

20.0%

Efficiency

ROE

19.9%

ROA

14.5%

ROIC

EPS

$4.82

Balance Sheet

Cash

Total Debt

$0

Current Ratio

3.36

Debt/Equity

0.00

Conclusions

  • 🟢Gross marginGross margin: 41.7% — strong
  • 🟢Operating marginOperating margin: 20.0% — strong
  • 🟢Net marginNet margin: 15.5% — strong
  • 🟡Return on equity (ROE)Return on equity (ROE): 19.9% — reasonable
  • 🟢Return on assets (ROA)Return on assets (ROA): 14.5% — strong
  • 🟢Current ratio (liquidity)Current ratio: 3.36
  • 🟢Debt-to-equityDebt/equity: 0.00

🚀 Growth

Revenue

Earnings per Share (EPS)

Net Income

Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Conclusions

  • 🟢Revenue growth (last year)Revenue growth (last year): 10.9%
  • 🟢Earnings per share (EPS) growthEarnings per share (EPS) growth: 13.2%
  • 🟢Free cash flow growthFree cash flow growth: 19.3%
  • 🟢Net income growthNet income growth: 13.4%

💵 Dividends

Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.

Annual Dividend per Share

Ex-Dividend DateAmount per Share
22.5.2026$0.400
27.2.2026$0.400
21.11.2025$0.400
22.8.2025$0.400
23.5.2025$0.340
28.2.2025$0.340
22.11.2024$0.340
23.8.2024$0.340
23.5.2024$0.270
22.2.2024$0.270
22.11.2023$0.270
24.8.2023$0.270

💎 Fair Value (Valuation)

Current Price

$137.17

Estimated Fair Value (DCF)

$125.89

Gap

-8.2%

🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value

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Year 1 Growth Rate

17.6%

Discount Rate (WACC)

9.0%

Terminal Growth Rate

2.5%

Projection Years

5

YearGrowth RateProjected FCFPresent Value
117.6%$199.52M$183.05M
213.8%$227.10M$191.15M
310.0%$249.92M$192.98M
46.3%$265.60M$188.15M
52.5%$272.24M$176.93M

Base FCF (last actual year)

$169.67M

Terminal Value

$4.29B

Present Value of Terminal Value

$2.79B

Enterprise Value

$3.72B

Net Debt

$0

Equity Value

$3.72B

*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.

Book Value per Share

$24.12

Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)

$12.15

Conclusions

  • 🟡DCF Fair ValueEstimated fair value: $125.89 vs. price $137.17 (-8.2%)
  • 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV)NAV per share: $12.15
  • 🟡P/EP/E: 29.3

🕴️ Insider Trading

Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 6 purchases and 1 sales out of the last 25 filings.

NameTransaction TypeDateSharesChangePrice
Callahan Edward F.Open Market Purchase30.7.20261,937+751$135.25
ADAMS TODD A.Grant/Award from Employer1.7.202617,201+128$148.38
Liu XiaGrant/Award from Employer1.7.20264,653+128$148.38
Liu XiaGrant/Award from Employer1.5.20264,525+131$152.35
TELLOCK GLEN EGrant/Award from Employer27.4.20268,551+952$122.96
McGill James WGrant/Award from Employer27.4.20264,893+952$122.96
STERN JAMES FGrant/Award from Employer27.4.20268,551+952$122.96
ADAMS TODD A.Grant/Award from Employer27.4.202617,072+952$122.96
Liu XiaGrant/Award from Employer27.4.20264,393+952$122.96
Myers Tessa M.Grant/Award from Employer27.4.20265,913+952$122.96
Brooks Henry FGrant/Award from Employer27.4.20263,237+952$122.96
Cook Melanie K.Grant/Award from Employer27.4.20263,237+952$122.96
Wrocklage RobertOpen Market Purchase23.4.202623,321+1,000$122.35
Bockhorst KennethOpen Market Purchase21.4.202651,676+2,200$117.53
Htwe RichardOpen Market Purchase21.4.20267,603+1,700$116.13
Tarantino Christina M.Open Market Purchase21.4.20261,801+870$113.80
Callahan Edward F.Open Market Purchase21.4.20261,186+858$116.30
BERGUM WILLIAM R AI21.4.202613,365+1,414$123.78
ADAMS TODD A.Grant/Award from Employer1.4.202616,120+125$152.35
Liu XiaGrant/Award from Employer1.4.20263,441+125$152.35
BERGUM WILLIAM R AGrant/Award from Employer6.3.202615,236+369
BERGUM WILLIAM R ATax Withholding in Shares6.3.202615,190-46$148.85
Begale Fred JTax Withholding in Shares6.3.20263,004-36$148.85
Stoll Kimberly KGrant/Award from Employer6.3.20263,666+410
Stoll Kimberly KOpen Market Sale6.3.20263,523-143$144.50

📉 Short Interest

Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.

Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest

-14.9%

3,830,454 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 4,500,761 on 2026-06-30

Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.

Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity

-1.9%

77.0% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 78.5% the prior week

Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.

📰 News & Sentiment

Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 7 positive, 5 neutral, 5 negative out of the last 17 articles.