Pentair (NYSE:PNR) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.000-1.020 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.100. The company issued revenue guidance of $976.3 million-$986.5 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.0 billion. Pentair also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 4.650-4.800 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

PNR has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Citigroup cut their price target on shares of Pentair from $126.00 to $119.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, January 13th. TD Cowen increased their target price on Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 23rd. UBS Group upped their target price on shares of Pentair from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Oppenheimer boosted their price objective on Pentair from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, November 13th. Finally, Robert W. Baird raised their price target on Pentair from $106.00 to $114.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Pentair currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $111.25.

Pentair Stock Up 0.8 %

NYSE:PNR traded up $0.78 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $99.04. The stock had a trading volume of 1,161,820 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,375,139. Pentair has a 1-year low of $72.30 and a 1-year high of $110.71. The company has a market cap of $16.36 billion, a PE ratio of 24.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.20. 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 business has a 50 day simple moving average of $103.51 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $97.10.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last announced its 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. The firm had revenue of $972.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $970.95 million. Pentair had a return on equity of 20.48% and a net margin of 16.29%. 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 company earned $0.87 earnings per share. Analysts predict that Pentair will post 4.28 EPS for the current year.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. This is a boost from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.01%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 24th. Pentair’s dividend 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.