Badger Meter's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,338.6 Mil.
Badger Meter's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $117.9 Mil. Badger Meter's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.72%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Badger Meter's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
BMI'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.09 Med: 3.64 Max: 6.4
Current: 2.33
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Badger Meter was 6.40%. The lowest was 2.09%. And the median was 3.64%.
BMI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 55.86% of 2474
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 3.315
vs BMI: 2.33
Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.
A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. Badger Meter's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 16.79%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.
Badger Meter Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Badger Meter's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
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Badger Meter Annual Data
Trend
Dec14
Dec15
Dec16
Dec17
Dec18
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Dec22
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
3.35
2.44
2.59
2.85
2.72
Badger Meter Quarterly Data
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Sep22
Dec22
Mar23
Jun23
Sep23
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
2.85
2.71
2.41
2.67
2.72
Competitive Comparison
For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Badger Meter's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Badger Meter Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Badger Meter's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Badger Meter's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Badger Meter Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Calculation
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Badger Meters Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Badger Meter's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $117.9 Mil.
Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Explanation
Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.
Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.
Be Aware
Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.
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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. Badger's 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.
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