Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 1.000-1.020 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 1.100. The company issued revenue guidance of $976.3 million-$986.5 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.0 billion. Pentair also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 4.650-4.800 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

PNR has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. KeyCorp reiterated a “sector weight” rating and issued a $115.00 target price on shares of Pentair in a report on Monday, January 6th. UBS Group lifted their target price on shares of Pentair from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. TD Cowen lifted their price target on shares of Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Stifel Nicolaus dropped their target price on shares of Pentair from $126.00 to $125.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, January 24th. Finally, Oppenheimer lifted their price target on shares of Pentair from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 13th. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $111.25.

Pentair Stock Up 0.8 %

NYSE PNR traded up $0.78 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $99.04. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,161,820 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,375,139. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47, a current ratio of 1.60 and a quick ratio of 0.91. Pentair has a fifty-two week low of $72.30 and a fifty-two week high of $110.71. The company has a market cap of $16.36 billion, a PE ratio of 24.76, a P/E/G ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $103.51 and its 200-day simple moving average is $97.10.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $1.08 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.02 by $0.06. Pentair had a return on equity of 20.48% and a net margin of 16.29%. The business had revenue of $972.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $970.95 million. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.87 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was down 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Pentair will post 4.28 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 7th. Investors of record on Friday, January 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. This is a positive change from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 24th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.01%. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio is presently 25.00%.

About Pentair

Pentair plc provides various water solutions in the United States, Western Europe, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, Canada, and Japan. The company operates through three segments: Flow, Water Solutions, and Pool. The Flow segment designs, manufactures, and sells fluid treatment and pump products and systems, including pressure vessels, gas recovery solutions, membrane bioreactors, wastewater reuse systems and advanced membrane filtration, separation systems, water disposal pumps, water supply pumps, fluid transfer pumps, turbine pumps, solid handling pumps, and agricultural spray nozzles for fluid delivery, ion exchange, desalination, food and beverage, separation technologies in the oil and gas industry, residential and municipal wells, water treatment, wastewater solids handling, pressure boosting, circulation and transfer, fire suppression, flood control, agricultural irrigation, and crop spray in residential, commercial, and industrial markets.