Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Updates 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 FY25 guidance to ~$4.65-4.80 EPS.

Pentair Stock Up 0.8 %

PNR traded up $0.78 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $99.04. 1,161,820 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,375,139. The company has a market cap of $16.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.76, a PEG ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47, a current ratio of 1.60 and a quick ratio of 0.91. Pentair has a fifty-two week low of $72.30 and a fifty-two week high of $110.71. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $103.51 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $97.10.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last released its quarterly earnings results 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 business had revenue of $972.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $970.95 million. Pentair had a net margin of 16.29% and a return on equity of 20.48%. The firm’s revenue was down 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.87 earnings per share. As a group, analysts forecast 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. Stockholders 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 is an increase from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.01%. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 25.00%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts have weighed in on PNR shares. Royal Bank of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $115.00 target price on shares of Pentair in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. StockNews.com downgraded Pentair from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Robert W. Baird boosted their target price on Pentair from $106.00 to $114.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price target on Pentair from $93.00 to $103.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Finally, UBS Group lifted their target price on Pentair from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Seven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $111.25.

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.