Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 4.650-4.800 for the period, compared to the consensus 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.

Pentair Stock Performance

PNR traded down $2.00 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $100.63. The stock had a trading volume of 1,507,600 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,296,095. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $103.73 and its 200 day simple moving average is $96.96. Pentair has a 1 year low of $72.03 and a 1 year high of $110.71. The stock has a market cap of $16.63 billion, a PE ratio of 25.14, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a quick ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 1.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $1.08 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 period in the prior year, the business earned $0.87 earnings per share. Equities analysts anticipate that Pentair will post 4.28 earnings per share for the current 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 $0.25 dividend. 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. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 24th. Pentair’s payout ratio is currently 25.00%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Wolfe Research assumed coverage on Pentair in a research report on Tuesday, November 26th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $125.00 price target for the company. Oppenheimer boosted their price objective on shares of Pentair from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 13th. KeyCorp reiterated a “sector weight” rating and issued a $115.00 target price on shares of Pentair in a research note on Monday, January 6th. TD Cowen boosted 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. Finally, Mizuho increased their price objective on Pentair from $100.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 17th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $111.07.

Pentair Company Profile

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.