Roth Capital Analysts Lift Earnings Estimates for Generac

Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GNRC) – Equities researchers at Roth Capital upped their Q3 2025 earnings estimates for shares of Generac in a research note issued on Tuesday, October 22nd. Roth Capital analyst C. Moore now expects that the technology company will post earnings of $2.57 per share for the quarter, up from their previous estimate of $2.48. The consensus estimate for Generac’s current full-year earnings is $6.47 per share.

Generac (NYSE:GNRC) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 31st. The technology company reported $1.35 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.20 by $0.15. Generac had a net margin of 6.03% and a return on equity of 15.35%. The business had revenue of $998.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.08 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was down .2% compared to the same quarter last year.

Several other brokerages have also recently commented on GNRC. Stifel Nicolaus restated a “buy” rating and set a $175.00 price objective (up from $145.00) on shares of Generac in a research note on Thursday, August 1st. TD Cowen lifted their target price on shares of Generac from $144.00 to $172.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, August 1st. Canaccord Genuity Group lifted their target price on shares of Generac from $177.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, August 1st. Robert W. Baird lifted their target price on shares of Generac from $142.00 to $163.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, August 1st. Finally, Roth Mkm lifted their target price on shares of Generac from $160.00 to $175.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have given a hold rating and eleven have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $165.40.

Generac Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE GNRC opened at $164.45 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 2.25, a quick ratio of 0.99 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.61. Generac has a 12 month low of $79.86 and a 12 month high of $176.14. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $155.89 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $147.08. The stock has a market cap of $9.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.30, a PEG ratio of 2.22 and a beta of 1.38.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Capital World Investors boosted its position in shares of Generac by 2.1% during the 1st quarter. Capital World Investors now owns 1,230,434 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $155,207,000 after acquiring an additional 25,646 shares during the last quarter. William Blair Investment Management LLC acquired a new position in Generac in the second quarter valued at about $98,282,000. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP lifted its position in Generac by 5.2% in the second quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 702,811 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $92,941,000 after buying an additional 35,026 shares during the last quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd lifted its position in Generac by 0.7% in the second quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd now owns 519,741 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $68,720,000 after buying an additional 3,849 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Blair William & Co. IL lifted its position in Generac by 29.2% in the second quarter. Blair William & Co. IL now owns 457,475 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $60,487,000 after buying an additional 103,439 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 84.04% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at Generac

In other news, CEO Aaron Jagdfeld sold 5,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, October 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $158.93, for a total transaction of $794,650.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 562,177 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $89,346,790.61. This represents a 0.00 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Insiders own 2.80% of the company’s stock.

Generac Company Profile

Generac Holdings Inc designs, manufactures, and distributes various energy technology products and solution worldwide. The company offers residential automatic standby generators, automatic transfer switch, air-cooled engine residential standby generators, and liquid-cooled engine generators; Mobile Link, a remote monitoring system for home standby generators; residential storage solution, which consists of a system of batteries, an inverter, photovoltaic optimizers, power electronic controls, and other components; smart home solutions, such as smart thermostats and a suite of home monitoring products.