Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) Given Consensus Rating of "Moderate Buy" by Analysts

Key Points

• Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" from 17 brokerages, with a majority assigning buy ratings and an average 12-month price target of $119.93.
• The company reported a quarterly EPS of $1.24, exceeding estimates, with a 2.9% year-over-year revenue growth.
• Pentair recently declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25, translating to an annual yield of 0.9%, to be paid on November 7th.

Shares of Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR - Get Free Report) have received a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" from the seventeen brokerages that are covering the stock, Marketbeat reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating, eleven have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating on the company. The average 12-month price target among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $119.9286.

PNR has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. UBS Group upped their price target on shares of Pentair from $120.00 to $124.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Wednesday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price target on shares of Pentair from $116.00 to $126.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 15th. TD Cowen downgraded shares of Pentair from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $115.00 to $110.00 in a report on Wednesday, July 23rd. Bank of America downgraded shares of Pentair from a "neutral" rating to an "underperform" rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $106.00 to $100.00 in a report on Tuesday, July 29th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada upped their target price on shares of Pentair from $121.00 to $124.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a report on Wednesday.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. GAMMA Investing LLC boosted its position in shares of Pentair by 14.0% during the first quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 3,964 shares of the industrial products company's stock worth $347,000 after acquiring an additional 487 shares during the last quarter. Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. bought a new position in shares of Pentair during the 1st quarter valued at about $231,000. Asset Management One Co. Ltd. boosted its holdings in shares of Pentair by 4.8% during the 1st quarter. Asset Management One Co. Ltd. now owns 75,337 shares of the industrial products company's stock valued at $6,590,000 after purchasing an additional 3,476 shares during the last quarter. Spire Wealth Management boosted its holdings in shares of Pentair by 2,487.1% during the 1st quarter. Spire Wealth Management now owns 16,428 shares of the industrial products company's stock valued at $1,437,000 after purchasing an additional 15,793 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Pentair by 31.5% during the 1st quarter. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC now owns 4,453 shares of the industrial products company's stock valued at $390,000 after purchasing an additional 1,067 shares during the last quarter. 92.37% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Pentair Stock Performance

NYSE:PNR opened at $109.78 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $109.43 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $101.81. Pentair has a 52-week low of $74.25 and a 52-week high of $113.95. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a current ratio of 1.46. The firm has a market capitalization of $17.96 billion, a PE ratio of 27.86, a P/E/G ratio of 2.06 and a beta of 1.10.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 21st. The industrial products company reported $1.24 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.18 by $0.06. The business had revenue of $1.02 billion during 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%.Pentair's revenue for the quarter was up 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.09 earnings per share. Pentair has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 1.110-1.160 EPS. FY 2025 guidance at 4.850-4.900 EPS. Analysts forecast that Pentair will post 4.77 EPS for the current year.

Pentair Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, November 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, October 24th will be paid a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 24th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.9%. Pentair's dividend payout ratio is 25.38%.

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.

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