Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Issues 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 Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have recently weighed in on PNR shares. UBS Group upped their price objective on Pentair from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Citigroup cut their price target on shares of Pentair from $126.00 to $119.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Monday, January 13th. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price objective on shares of Pentair from $93.00 to $103.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Stifel Nicolaus cut their target price on shares of Pentair from $126.00 to $125.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, January 24th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $115.00 price target on shares of Pentair in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Pentair presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $111.25.

Pentair Stock Down 0.3 %

NYSE:PNR traded down $0.27 on Thursday, hitting $98.43. 288,048 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,387,607. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $103.31 and a 200-day moving average price of $97.11. The company has a current ratio of 1.60, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47. The company has a market cap of $16.26 billion, a PE ratio of 24.63, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20. Pentair has a 1 year low of $72.44 and a 1 year high of $110.71.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last announced 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 net margin of 16.29% and a return on equity of 20.48%. The firm had revenue of $972.90 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $970.95 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.87 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was down 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts anticipate that Pentair will post 4.28 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 7th. Investors of record on Friday, January 24th will be issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.02%. 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. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 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.