Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) Receives Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from Analysts

Shares of Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) have received an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the seventeen ratings firms that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, three have assigned a hold recommendation, eleven have assigned a buy recommendation and two have given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price target among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $119.9286.

PNR has been the topic of a number of research reports. UBS Group raised their price target on Pentair from $120.00 to $124.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 22nd. TD Cowen downgraded Pentair from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $115.00 to $110.00 in a research note on Wednesday, July 23rd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on Pentair from $116.00 to $126.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 15th. Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of Pentair in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus raised their price target on Pentair from $104.00 to $124.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, July 21st.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Richardson Financial Services Inc. grew its stake in shares of Pentair by 64.9% in the 3rd quarter. Richardson Financial Services Inc. now owns 249 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 98 shares during the last quarter. Wedmont Private Capital grew its stake in shares of Pentair by 2.7% in the 3rd quarter. Wedmont Private Capital now owns 3,906 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $432,000 after purchasing an additional 101 shares during the last quarter. Portside Wealth Group LLC grew its stake in shares of Pentair by 2.9% in the 2nd quarter. Portside Wealth Group LLC now owns 3,644 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $374,000 after purchasing an additional 102 shares during the last quarter. Greenwich Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Pentair by 1.4% in the 2nd quarter. Greenwich Wealth Management LLC now owns 7,223 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $742,000 after purchasing an additional 102 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Captrust Financial Advisors grew its stake in shares of Pentair by 0.3% in the 2nd quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 38,135 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $3,915,000 after purchasing an additional 107 shares during the last quarter. 92.37% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Pentair Price Performance

Shares of NYSE PNR opened at $107.49 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a current ratio of 1.46. Pentair has a fifty-two week low of $74.25 and a fifty-two week high of $113.95. The firm has a market capitalization of $17.59 billion, a PE ratio of 27.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.03 and a beta of 1.10. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $109.59 and its 200-day simple moving average is $102.67.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, October 21st. The industrial products company reported $1.24 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.18 by $0.06. The business had revenue of $1.02 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1 billion. Pentair had a return on equity of 21.83% and a net margin of 15.84%.The business’s quarterly revenue was up 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.09 EPS. Pentair has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 1.110-1.160 EPS. FY 2025 guidance at 4.850-4.900 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Pentair will post 4.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Pentair Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, November 7th. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 24th will be paid a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.9%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, October 24th. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 25.38%.

Pentair Company Profile

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.