Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. 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.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts have commented on the stock. StockNews.com lowered shares of Pentair from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. KeyCorp restated a “sector weight” rating and set a $115.00 price target on shares of Pentair in a research note on Monday, January 6th. Barclays upped their target price on shares of Pentair from $108.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 5th. Citigroup reduced their target price on shares of Pentair from $126.00 to $119.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, January 13th. Finally, TD Cowen upped their target price on shares of Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Seven equities research 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, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $111.25.

Pentair Stock Up 0.8 %

Shares of PNR traded up $0.78 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $99.04. The company had a trading volume of 1,161,820 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,375,139. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $103.51 and a 200-day moving average price of $97.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 1.60. The stock has a market capitalization of $16.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.76, a P/E/G ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20. Pentair has a 52-week low of $72.30 and a 52-week high of $110.71.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $1.08 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.02 by $0.06. The firm had revenue of $972.90 million during 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 business’s revenue for the quarter was down 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.87 EPS. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Pentair will post 4.28 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 7th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 24th will be paid a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.01%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 24th. This is a positive change from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. Pentair’s payout ratio is 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.