Pentair plc to Post Q1 2025 Earnings of $1.06 Per Share, Zacks Research Forecasts (NYSE:PNR)

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) – Equities researchers at Zacks Research reduced their Q1 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Pentair in a research note issued on Monday, September 16th. Zacks Research analyst M. Das now anticipates that the industrial products company will post earnings of $1.06 per share for the quarter, down from their prior estimate of $1.07. The consensus estimate for Pentair’s current full-year earnings is $4.25 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Pentair’s Q2 2025 earnings at $1.27 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $1.15 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $4.63 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $1.41 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $5.21 EPS.

A number of other analysts have also weighed in on the stock. Barclays raised their price target on shares of Pentair from $90.00 to $96.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 24th. Stifel Nicolaus lifted their target price on Pentair from $100.00 to $101.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 24th. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price target on Pentair from $85.00 to $93.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 24th. KeyCorp lifted their price objective on Pentair from $92.00 to $97.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 24th. Finally, Oppenheimer boosted their price objective on Pentair from $92.00 to $98.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 24th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eleven have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Pentair currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $92.87.

Pentair Trading Up 1.9 %

Shares of NYSE PNR opened at $95.26 on Thursday. Pentair has a 1-year low of $57.18 and a 1-year high of $95.87. The company has a 50-day moving average of $85.37 and a two-hundred day moving average of $82.13. The company has a market cap of $15.82 billion, a PE ratio of 25.34, a P/E/G ratio of 1.64 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a current ratio of 1.65, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.51.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 23rd. The industrial products company reported $1.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.14 by $0.08. Pentair had a return on equity of 20.39% and a net margin of 16.05%. The business had revenue of $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.09 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.03 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of PNR. Kodai Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in Pentair in the fourth quarter worth $173,280,000. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale increased its position in shares of Pentair by 352.5% in the 1st quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale now owns 1,577,208 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $134,695,000 after buying an additional 1,228,635 shares in the last quarter. Swedbank AB acquired a new stake in Pentair during the 1st quarter worth $97,083,000. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its holdings in Pentair by 91.7% during the second quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 2,082,362 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $159,655,000 after acquiring an additional 996,325 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Interval Partners LP grew its stake in Pentair by 289.6% in the second quarter. Interval Partners LP now owns 956,117 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $73,305,000 after acquiring an additional 710,703 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.