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Badger Meter, Inc. earns 28% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
28%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 19 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 19%
Operating margin · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 17% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.29×
Cash conversion · 1.14× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −0.68%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 15% |
| FY2021 | 16% |
| FY2022 | 15% |
| FY2023 | 17% |
| FY2024 | 19% |
| FY2025 | 20% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 19%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 15%
- Free cash flow margin
- 19%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $897M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $169M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $131M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 28%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Scientific & Technical Instruments
Ranks #8 of 16 by Smart Score