Badger Meter has a Cash Ratio of 2.00. It generally indicates that the company is able to cover all short-term debt and still have cash remaining.
The historical rank and industry rank for Badger Meter's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
BMI'
s Cash Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.04 Med: 0.68 Max: 2
Current: 2
During the past 13 years, Badger Meter's highest Cash Ratio was 2.00. The lowest was 0.04. And the median was 0.68.
BMI's Cash Ratio is ranked better than 81.92% of 2450
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 0.61
vs BMI: 2.00
Badger Meter Cash Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Badger Meter's Cash Ratio 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.
Competitive Comparison of Badger Meter's Cash Ratio
For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Badger Meter's Cash Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cash Ratio 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's Cash Ratio Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Badger Meter's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Badger Meter's Cash Ratio falls into.
Badger Meter Cash Ratio Calculation
The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.
Badger Meter's Cash Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as:
* 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.
Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) Cash Ratio Explanation
The cash ratio is more conservative than other liquidity ratios, such as Quick Ratio and Current Ratio, because it only considers a company's most liquid resources. The numerator of cash ratio only considers Cash, Cash Equivalents and marketable securities. Other current assets, such as accounts receivable and inventories, are not included. The rationale is that these assets may require time to be transformed into cash, and the amount of money received is also uncertain.
The cash ratio shows a company’s ability to pay all current liabilities immediately without selling or liquidating other assets. Generally speaking, a higher cash ratio suggests the company has a stronger ability to cover its short-term debt. However, a high cash ratio could also indicate inefficient management: the company is inefficient in making full utilization of cash to invest protential profitable project. It may also suggest that the company is not confident about future profitability.
In general, the higher the cash ratio, the better the company's liquidity position.
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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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