Zacks Research Issues Positive Forecast for Pentair Earnings

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) – Research analysts at Zacks Research lifted their Q3 2025 earnings estimates for shares of Pentair in a research report issued on Monday, January 20th. Zacks Research analyst M. Das now anticipates that the industrial products company will earn $1.23 per share for the quarter, up from their previous estimate of $1.22. The consensus estimate for Pentair’s current full-year earnings is $4.28 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Pentair’s Q4 2025 earnings at $1.17 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $4.81 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $1.44 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $1.28 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $5.32 EPS.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October 22nd. The industrial products company reported $1.09 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.07 by $0.02. Pentair had a net margin of 16.29% and a return on equity of 20.48%. The company had revenue of $993.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $988.53 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.94 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year.

Other analysts have also recently issued research reports about the company. KeyCorp reiterated a “sector weight” rating and set a $115.00 price objective on shares of Pentair in a research report on Monday, January 6th. UBS Group upped their price target 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. Stifel Nicolaus raised their price objective on shares of Pentair from $115.00 to $126.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 11th. TD Cowen upped their target price on shares of Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Finally, Mizuho increased their price target on shares of Pentair from $100.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 17th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Pentair currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $111.13.

Pentair Price Performance

Shares of PNR opened at $104.23 on Wednesday. The firm has a market cap of $17.22 billion, a PE ratio of 26.06, a P/E/G ratio of 1.68 and a beta of 1.21. Pentair has a 1-year low of $70.59 and a 1-year high of $110.71. 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 fifty day simple moving average of $104.17 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $95.54.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 7th. Investors of record on Friday, January 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.96%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 24th. This is an increase from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 23.00%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Pentair news, EVP Philip M. Rolchigo sold 3,588 shares of Pentair stock in a transaction on Friday, November 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $99.67, for a total value of $357,615.96. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 19,232 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,916,853.44. The trade was a 15.72 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. 1.10% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in PNR. Quarry LP boosted its stake in Pentair by 105.5% during the third quarter. Quarry LP now owns 261 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $26,000 after buying an additional 134 shares during the last quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. boosted its position in shares of Pentair by 753.8% during the 4th quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. now owns 333 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $34,000 after acquiring an additional 294 shares during the last quarter. Blue Trust Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Pentair by 165.2% in the third quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 525 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $51,000 after purchasing an additional 327 shares in the last quarter. Eastern Bank increased its position in Pentair by 144.9% in the fourth quarter. Eastern Bank now owns 507 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $51,000 after purchasing an additional 300 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Friedenthal Financial bought a new position in Pentair during the fourth quarter valued at $56,000. Hedge funds and other 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.