Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 4.650-4.800 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 4.830. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.1 billion-$4.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.2 billion. Pentair also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.000-1.020 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Oppenheimer boosted their price objective on shares of Pentair from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 13th. Stifel Nicolaus decreased their target price on Pentair from $126.00 to $125.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price target on shares of Pentair from $106.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. TD Cowen increased their price objective 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. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $115.00 target price on shares of Pentair in a research note on Thursday, November 21st. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Pentair currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $111.07.

Pentair Trading Down 1.9 %

Shares of NYSE PNR traded down $2.00 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $100.63. 1,507,600 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,296,095. The stock has a market capitalization of $16.63 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.14, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20. 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’s 50 day moving average price is $103.73 and its 200 day moving average price is $96.96. Pentair has a 12 month low of $72.03 and a 12 month high of $110.71.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last posted its earnings results 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%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.87 earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that Pentair will post 4.28 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 7th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 24th will be issued a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 24th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.99%. This is a positive change from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) 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.