What is Zacks Research’s Forecast for Pentair Q1 Earnings?

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) – Zacks Research decreased their Q1 2025 earnings per share estimates for Pentair in a report released on Tuesday, February 18th. Zacks Research analyst M. Das now expects that the industrial products company will post earnings of $1.01 per share for the quarter, down from their prior estimate of $1.09. The consensus estimate for Pentair’s current full-year earnings is $4.77 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Pentair’s Q4 2025 earnings at $1.19 EPS, Q1 2026 earnings at $1.19 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $5.46 EPS.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last announced 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 business had revenue of $972.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $970.95 million. Pentair had a return on equity of 20.94% and a net margin of 15.32%. The firm’s quarterly 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.

A number of other research analysts have also recently issued reports on the company. TD Cowen lifted their price objective on Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. UBS Group boosted their price target on Pentair from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Oppenheimer boosted their price target on Pentair from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 13th. Northcoast Research upgraded Pentair from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 5th. Finally, Robert W. Baird boosted their price target on Pentair from $106.00 to $114.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 5th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, ten have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $111.25.

Pentair Stock Down 0.1 %

Shares of NYSE:PNR opened at $96.61 on Wednesday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $101.35 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $97.94. The stock has a market capitalization of $15.96 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.83, a PEG ratio of 1.89 and a beta of 1.20. Pentair has a 12-month low of $72.63 and a 12-month high of $110.71. The company has a current ratio of 1.60, a quick ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 7th. Investors of record on Friday, January 24th were issued a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, January 24th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.04%. This is a positive change from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. Pentair’s payout ratio is presently 26.74%.

Institutional Trading of Pentair

Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Harbour Investments Inc. grew its holdings in Pentair by 10.7% during the third quarter. Harbour Investments Inc. now owns 6,585 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $644,000 after purchasing an additional 636 shares during the period. Moody National Bank Trust Division bought a new stake in Pentair during the fourth quarter valued at about $989,000. Algert Global LLC bought a new stake in Pentair during the third quarter valued at about $479,000. FMR LLC grew its holdings in Pentair by 4.7% during the third quarter. FMR LLC now owns 5,704,672 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $557,860,000 after purchasing an additional 258,134 shares during the period. Finally, Pathstone Holdings LLC grew its holdings in Pentair by 47.4% during the third quarter. Pathstone Holdings LLC now owns 19,881 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $1,944,000 after purchasing an additional 6,391 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 92.37% of the company’s stock.

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.