BMI vs. COHR, CGNX, ITRI, OSIS, MLAB, DAKT, VPG, FARO, VNT, and TER
Should you be buying Badger Meter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Badger Meter include Coherent (COHR), Cognex (CGNX), Itron (ITRI), OSI Systems (OSIS), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Daktronics (DAKT), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), FARO Technologies (FARO), Vontier (VNT), and Teradyne (TER).
Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) and Coherent (NYSE:COHR) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Badger Meter has a net margin of 13.81% compared to Coherent's net margin of -6.22%. Badger Meter's return on equity of 20.26% beat Coherent's return on equity.
Badger Meter currently has a consensus target price of $164.80, suggesting a potential downside of 16.00%. Coherent has a consensus target price of $56.36, suggesting a potential downside of 4.53%. Given Coherent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Coherent is more favorable than Badger Meter.
In the previous week, Badger Meter and Badger Meter both had 6 articles in the media. Badger Meter's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Coherent's score of -0.51 indicating that Badger Meter is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coherent received 264 more outperform votes than Badger Meter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.70% of users gave Coherent an outperform vote while only 52.79% of users gave Badger Meter an outperform vote.
Badger Meter has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coherent has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Badger Meter has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Coherent. Coherent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Badger Meter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.0% of Badger Meter shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Coherent shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Badger Meter shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Coherent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Badger Meter beats Coherent on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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