PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab Takes Position in Trimble Inc. $TRMB

Key Points

• PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab bought a new stake of 239,220 shares in Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) during Q4, valued at about $19.03 million and representing roughly 0.10% of the company.
• Trimble beat quarterly estimates with $1.00 EPS (vs. $0.96 est.) and $969.8M revenue, issued FY2026 guidance of 3.420–3.620 EPS, and holds a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" with an average price target of $92.78.
• Insiders sold 31,725 shares (~$2.15M) under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans (to cover tax withholding), while institutional ownership is very high at 93.21% and several funds (e.g., Barclays, Robeco) materially increased their Trimble holdings.

PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab purchased a new stake in shares of Trimble Inc. (NASDAQ:TRMB - Free Report) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund purchased 239,220 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock, valued at approximately $19,032,000. PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab owned approximately 0.10% of Trimble as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. SG Americas Securities LLC grew its holdings in shares of Trimble by 30.9% during the 3rd quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 96,052 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $7,843,000 after acquiring an additional 22,650 shares in the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd grew its holdings in shares of Trimble by 31.5% during the 3rd quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd now owns 146,283 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $11,944,000 after acquiring an additional 35,015 shares in the last quarter. Essex Investment Management Co. LLC grew its holdings in shares of Trimble by 168.8% during the 3rd quarter. Essex Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 45,669 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $3,729,000 after acquiring an additional 28,676 shares in the last quarter. Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. grew its holdings in shares of Trimble by 123.4% during the 3rd quarter. Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. now owns 237,294 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $19,375,000 after acquiring an additional 131,056 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Barclays PLC grew its holdings in shares of Trimble by 17.5% during the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 839,625 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $68,555,000 after acquiring an additional 124,772 shares in the last quarter. 93.21% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Trimble Price Performance

TRMB stock opened at $68.42 on Monday. The company has a current ratio of 1.09, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24. Trimble Inc. has a 1 year low of $62.00 and a 1 year high of $87.50. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $66.87 and a 200 day simple moving average of $73.21. The firm has a market cap of $15.88 billion, a PE ratio of 39.10, a PEG ratio of 2.28 and a beta of 1.45.

Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.00 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.96 by $0.04. Trimble had a net margin of 11.82% and a return on equity of 11.18%. The firm had revenue of $969.80 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $949.97 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 EPS. The business's revenue was down 1.4% on a year-over-year basis. Trimble has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.420-3.620 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.690-0.740 EPS. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Trimble Inc. will post 3 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms recently issued reports on TRMB. Wells Fargo & Company reduced their price objective on shares of Trimble from $94.00 to $79.00 and set an "overweight" rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, February 12th. Oppenheimer reaffirmed an "outperform" rating and issued a $86.00 price objective on shares of Trimble in a research note on Tuesday, February 10th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a "hold (c)" rating on shares of Trimble in a research note on Wednesday, January 21st. Barclays lifted their price objective on shares of Trimble from $101.00 to $103.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a research note on Friday, March 6th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reaffirmed an "outperform" rating on shares of Trimble in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Ten analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Trimble has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $92.78.

Insider Transactions at Trimble

In other news, VP Mark David Schwartz sold 16,725 shares of Trimble stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $67.01, for a total value of $1,120,742.25. Following the transaction, the vice president directly owned 19,668 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,317,952.68. The trade was a 45.96% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Also, CEO Robert G. Painter sold 7,500 shares of Trimble stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $66.94, for a total value of $502,050.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 11,897 shares in the company, valued at $796,385.18. The trade was a 38.67% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Insiders sold 31,725 shares of company stock worth $2,151,167 over the last quarter. 0.59% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Trimble Profile

Trimble Inc NASDAQ: TRMB is a technology company that develops hardware, software and services to improve the productivity and connectivity of customers across the construction, agriculture, geospatial, transportation and logistics, and natural resources sectors. The company's offerings center on advanced positioning technologies — including GNSS/GPS receivers, inertial sensors and laser scanning — integrated with application-specific software and cloud services to enable precise measurement, modeling, machine control and workflow automation for field and office operations.

Trimble's product portfolio spans surveying and geospatial instruments (total stations, mobile mapping and terrestrial laser scanners), construction solutions (machine control systems, site positioning and estimating), agriculture systems (auto-steer, guidance and application-control platforms), and fleet and transportation telematics.

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