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127.28USD
+1.17 (+0.93%)
We have scored 82 news catalysts on Badger Meter, Inc. (BMI) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came Jul 22, 2026, when BMI closed −13.2%: “INVESTOR REMINDER: Berger Montague Notifies Badger Meter, Inc. (BMI) Investors of a Class Action Lawsuit and Deadline”. Coverage across the window leans negative (average ticker sentiment −0.69). Most of the impact sits in price momentum and institutional appeal.
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Market cap
3.7B
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
0.64
52W range
112.09-204
Day range
126.02–127.50
Open
127.25
Prev close
126.11
Volume
9.1K
Avg volume
449.5K
Dividend
1.64
IPO
1983-10-27
Analysts publish price targets on BMI, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
8 analyst price targets from $109 to $170
as of 2026-08-27
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
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Badger Meter, Inc. (BMI) provides a comprehensive range of solutions for flow measurement, quality assessment, control, and communication. Operating globally, the company serves markets across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. For municipal water utilities, BMI supplies both conventional and advanced water meters, complemented by associated radio, software, and service technologies. Additionally, Badger Meter engineers and produces a variety of flow instrumentation devices, including meters, valves, and sensing tools. These instruments are vital for measuring and controlling the flow of various substances—from water, air, and steam to oil and other liquids and gases—within industrial piping and pipelines. They are incorporated by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as primary measurement components within their products or systems and distributed through manufacturer representatives. Key applications for this instrumentation span water/wastewater treatment, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and corporate sustainability efforts. The company further innovates with its ORION suite of automatic meter reading (AMR) technologies, encompassing ORION Migratable, ORION (SE) for traditional fixed networks, and ORION Cellular for infrastructure-free fixed network solutions. Its BEACON advanced metering analytics platform, a secure cloud-hosted software, empowers users with alerts for specified conditions and consumer engagement tools to visualize and manage water usage. Serving a broad customer base, including water utilities, industrial clients, and other sectors, Badger Meter sells its offerings directly and through a network of resellers and representatives. Founded in 1905, Badger Meter, Inc. is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The reconstruction
The price sits at the 25th percentile of published models, 15% below the median, meaning the market leans bearish and explicitly rejects the secular growth narrative that five bull targets still endorse.
What the disagreement turns on
Is the sharp drop in utility water sales a temporary project-timing delay that will reverse, or a structural payback from pulling forward demand that permanently impairs margins? Quarterly segment revenue data can measure this, but the available wired tool coverage cannot directly observe order pacing or the true composition of the bid pipeline, so the answer requires manual tracking of upcoming earnings disclosures.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
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Computed at $137 on 2026-08-27 — the quote has since moved -7%, so read this as a record of what was priced in then, not now.
