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 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.

Pentair Trading Down 2.7 %

Shares of NYSE:PNR traded down $2.73 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $99.90. 840,236 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,263,404. Pentair has a 1-year low of $72.03 and a 1-year high of $110.71. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $103.73 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $96.96. 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 firm has a market cap of $16.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.03, a PEG ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $1.08 EPS 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 quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.87 earnings per share. Equities analysts predict that Pentair will post 4.28 earnings per share for the current 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. 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 1.00%. This is a boost from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. Pentair’s payout ratio is currently 25.00%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts have recently commented on the stock. Barclays boosted their price objective on shares of Pentair from $108.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 5th. TD Cowen boosted their price objective on shares of Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. StockNews.com lowered shares of Pentair from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Royal Bank of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $115.00 price objective on shares of Pentair in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. Finally, Wolfe Research began coverage on shares of Pentair in a research report on Tuesday, November 26th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $125.00 price objective on the stock. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Pentair presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $111.07.

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.