Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) Given Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by Brokerages

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) has been assigned an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the seventeen research firms that are presently covering the company, MarketBeat.com reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating, eleven have assigned a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating on the company. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $114.9286.

A number of research analysts have weighed in on the stock. Robert W. Baird raised their target price on shares of Pentair from $107.00 to $121.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 23rd. Bank of America lowered Pentair from a “neutral” rating to an “underperform” rating and lowered their price objective for the stock from $106.00 to $100.00 in a research note on Tuesday, July 29th. Wall Street Zen raised Pentair from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, July 26th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of Pentair in a research report on Saturday, September 27th. Finally, Oppenheimer raised their price objective on shares of Pentair from $118.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 23rd.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Pentair

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Opal Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Pentair during the 1st quarter worth $28,000. NBC Securities Inc. purchased a new stake in Pentair in the 1st quarter valued at about $33,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. lifted its position in Pentair by 105.4% in the second quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 345 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $35,000 after buying an additional 177 shares during the last quarter. Horizon Financial Services LLC purchased a new position in Pentair during the first quarter worth about $38,000. Finally, North Capital Inc. purchased a new position in Pentair during the first quarter worth about $38,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 92.37% of the company’s stock.

Pentair Trading Down 0.1%

Shares of PNR stock opened at $112.28 on Tuesday. Pentair has a fifty-two week low of $74.25 and a fifty-two week high of $113.95. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.38, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a current ratio of 1.45. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $107.56 and its two-hundred day moving average is $99.42. The firm has a market capitalization of $18.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.68, a PEG ratio of 2.15 and a beta of 1.10.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, July 22nd. The industrial products company reported $1.39 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.33 by $0.06. The business had revenue of $1.12 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.12 billion. Pentair had a net margin of 14.86% and a return on equity of 21.62%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 2.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.22 earnings per share. Pentair has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 1.160-1.20 EPS. FY 2025 guidance at 4.750-4.85 EPS. Research analysts expect that Pentair will post 4.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Pentair Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, November 7th. Investors of record on Friday, October 24th will be issued a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Friday, October 24th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.9%. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio is currently 27.32%.

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.