Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Releases FY25 Earnings Guidance

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) updated its FY25 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of ~$4.65-4.80 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.84. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$4.08-4.16 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.22 billion. Pentair also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 4.650-4.800 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms recently commented on PNR. Robert W. Baird raised their price objective on shares of Pentair from $106.00 to $114.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday. TD Cowen raised their price objective on shares of Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 23rd. UBS Group raised their price objective on shares of Pentair from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 23rd. KeyCorp reaffirmed a “sector weight” rating and issued a $115.00 price objective on shares of Pentair in a report on Monday, January 6th. Finally, Citigroup cut their price objective 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. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $111.25.

Pentair Trading Up 0.6 %

Shares of PNR stock traded up $0.55 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $99.25. The stock had a trading volume of 51,746 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,377,347. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $103.31 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $97.11. Pentair has a 52-week low of $72.44 and a 52-week high of $110.71. The firm has a market capitalization of $16.40 billion, a PE ratio of 24.82, 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.

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

Pentair Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed 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. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 24th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.01%. This is a positive change from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. Pentair’s 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.