Badger Meter (BMI) FCF Payout Ratio (2010 - 2026)

Badger Meter (BMI) reported FCF Payout Ratio of 0.4 for Q1 2026, up 19.25% year-over-year from 0.33 in Q1 2025, and up 71.87% quarter-over-quarter from 0.23 in Q4 2025.

Badger Meter (BMI) FCF Payout Ratio (2010 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Badger Meter (BMI) has 17 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.4 in Q1 2026.

  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 came in at 0.4, up 19.25% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.27 (up 8.26% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.26, up 1.78% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio improved to 0.4 in Q1 2026 per BMI's latest filing, from 0.23 in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, FCF Payout Ratio peaked at 0.72 in Q1 2022 and troughed at 0.21 in Q4 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.32 and a median of 0.28 in 2023 frame the typical range for FCF Payout Ratio.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2023: FCF Payout Ratio jumped 297.83% in 2022, then slumped 33.17% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.23 in 2022, then slipped by 4.55% to 0.22 in 2023, then declined by 4.51% to 0.21 in 2024, then grew by 9.75% to 0.23 in 2025, then soared by 71.87% to 0.4 in 2026.
  • Business Quant data shows BMI's FCF Payout Ratio at 0.4 in Q1 2026, 0.23 in Q4 2025, and 0.24 in Q3 2025.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Cover (Qtr)
1 Coherent 67.67 Bn 66.37 Bn 679.95 Mn -
2 Keysight Technologies 57.00 Bn 54.83 Bn 995.00 Mn -
3 Garmin 45.82 Bn 43.12 Bn 1.04 Bn 0.37
4 Teledyne Technologies 28.64 Bn 28.34 Bn 673.80 Mn -
5 Mks 21.67 Bn 21.10 Bn 507.00 Mn 0.61
6 Fortive 19.42 Bn 19.07 Bn 675.50 Mn 0.09
7 Trimble 12.42 Bn 12.19 Bn 646.30 Mn -
8 Cognex 10.23 Bn 9.94 Bn 190.94 Mn 0.34
9 Esco Technologies 7.86 Bn 7.77 Bn 131.32 Mn 0.04
10 Badger Meter 3.81 Bn 3.60 Bn 84.33 Mn 0.40

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 0.40
Dec 31, 2025 0.23
Sep 30, 2025 0.24
Jun 30, 2025 0.25
Mar 31, 2025 0.33
Dec 31, 2024 0.21
Sep 30, 2024 0.24
Jun 30, 2024 0.23
Mar 31, 2024 0.42
Dec 31, 2023 0.22
Sep 30, 2023 0.28
Jun 30, 2023 0.33
Mar 31, 2023 0.48
Dec 31, 2022 0.23
Sep 30, 2022 0.30
Jun 30, 2022 0.32
Mar 31, 2022 0.72
Dec 31, 2021 0.22
Sep 30, 2021 0.42
Jun 30, 2021 0.44