Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI – Get Free Report) and Mirion Technologies (NYSE:MIR – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability and risk.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
89.0% of Badger Meter shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Mirion Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Badger Meter shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Mirion Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Badger Meter and Mirion Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Badger Meter | 14.27% | 18.03% | 12.82% |
| Mirion Technologies | 2.39% | 6.59% | 3.53% |
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Badger Meter | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2.36 |
| Mirion Technologies | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2.80 |
Badger Meter presently has a consensus target price of $164.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.28%. Mirion Technologies has a consensus target price of $26.25, suggesting a potential upside of 75.13%. Given Mirion Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mirion Technologies is more favorable than Badger Meter.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Badger Meter and Mirion Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Badger Meter | $916.66 million | 4.24 | $141.63 million | $4.28 | 31.34 |
| Mirion Technologies | $925.40 million | 4.06 | $28.80 million | $0.10 | 149.89 |
Badger Meter has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mirion Technologies. Badger Meter is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mirion Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Badger Meter has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mirion Technologies has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mirion Technologies beats Badger Meter on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Badger Meter
Badger Meter, Inc. manufactures and markets flow measurement, quality, control, and communication solutions worldwide. It offers mechanical or static water meters, and related radio and software technologies and services to municipal water utilities market. The company also provides flow instrumentation products, including meters, valves, and other sensing instruments to measure and control fluids going through a pipe or pipeline, including water, air, steam, and other liquids and gases to original equipment manufacturers as the primary flow measurement device within a product or system, as well as through manufacturers' representatives. In addition, the company offers ORION Cellular endpoints to power network as a service; ORION mobile read endpoints support for deploying AMR solution; radio products; hardware, instruments, and sensors, and related software, to enhance connected data to a water utility's operation; water quality monitoring solutions, including optical sensing and electrochemical instruments; and high frequency pressure and leak detection sensors to aid in burst pipe and leak events; as well as BEACON, a secure cloud-hosted software suite that establishes alerts for specific conditions and allows consumer engagement tools that permit end water customers to view and manage their water usage activity. Its flow instrumentation products are used in water/wastewater, heating, ventilating and air conditioning, and corporate sustainability markets. The company serves water utilities, commercial, and industrial industries; and provides training, project management, technical support, and other collaborative services for customers. It sells its products and software directly, as well as through resellers and representatives. The company was incorporated in 1905 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
About Mirion Technologies
Mirion Technologies, Inc. provides radiation detection, measurement, analysis, and monitoring products and services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland, China, Belgium, Netherlands, Estonia, South Korea, and Japan. It operates through two segments, Medical and Technologies. The Medical segment offers radiation oncology quality assurance and dosimetry solutions; patient safety solutions for diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy centers; radiation therapy quality assurance solutions for calibrating and verifying imaging and treatment accuracy; and radionuclide therapy products for nuclear medicine applications, such as shielding, product handling, medical imaging furniture, and rehabilitation products. This segment supports applications in medical diagnostics, cancer treatment, practitioner safety, and rehabilitation. The Technologies segment focuses on addressing critical radiation safety, measurement, and analysis applications; and provides personal radiation detection, identification equipment, and analysis tools. The company's products and solutions also include nuclear medicines, dosimeters, contamination and clearance monitors, reactor instrumentation and control equipment and systems, medical and industrial imaging systems and related accessories, alpha spectroscopy instruments, alpha/beta counting instruments, and gamma spectroscopy detector systems; and electrical penetration, cancer diagnostics, software, and other services. It serves hospitals, clinics and urgent care facilities, dental and veterinary offices, radiation treatment facilities, OEMs for radiation therapy, laboratories, military organizations, government agencies, industrial companies, power and utility companies, reactor design firms, and NPPs. The company was formerly known as Global Monitoring Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Mirion Technologies, Inc. in January 2006. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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