Brokerages Set Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) Target Price at $114.36

Key Points

• Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) has received a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" from analysts, with a 12-month average price target of approximately $114.36.
• Recent analyst activity includes upgrades from Stifel Nicolaus and Robert W. Baird, with price targets raised to $124.00 and $121.00, respectively.
• Pentair reported $1.39 EPS for the last quarter, exceeding estimates, with year-over-year revenue growth of 2.2%.

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR - Get Free Report) has received an average rating of "Moderate Buy" from the sixteen analysts that are currently covering the company, MarketBeat.com reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating, ten have assigned a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $114.3571.

Several analysts have recently weighed in on PNR shares. Oppenheimer lifted their target price on shares of Pentair from $118.00 to $120.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Wednesday, July 23rd. TD Cowen downgraded shares of Pentair from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and lowered their target price for the company from $115.00 to $110.00 in a report on Wednesday, July 23rd. Mizuho lifted their target price on shares of Pentair from $118.00 to $122.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Wednesday, July 23rd. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Pentair from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Saturday, July 26th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on shares of Pentair from $113.00 to $116.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Wednesday, July 23rd.

Institutional Trading of Pentair

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Opal Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Pentair in the first quarter valued at about $28,000. Colonial Trust Co SC boosted its holdings in Pentair by 230.8% during the fourth quarter. Colonial Trust Co SC now owns 344 shares of the industrial products company's stock worth $35,000 after buying an additional 240 shares in the last quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. grew its position in Pentair by 105.4% during the second quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 345 shares of the industrial products company's stock worth $35,000 after buying an additional 177 shares during the period. NBC Securities Inc. purchased a new position in Pentair in the first quarter valued at about $33,000. Finally, Garde Capital Inc. purchased a new position in Pentair in the second quarter valued at about $41,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 92.37% of the company's stock.

Pentair Stock Performance

Pentair stock traded up $0.60 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $110.66. 1,118,577 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,148,805. Pentair has a 12-month low of $74.25 and a 12-month high of $111.80. 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 has a market cap of $18.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.24, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.12 and a beta of 1.08. The firm's 50 day simple moving average is $105.55 and its 200 day simple moving average is $96.55.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July 22nd. The industrial products company reported $1.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.33 by $0.06. Pentair had a net margin of 14.86% and a return on equity of 21.62%. The company had revenue of $1.12 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.12 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.22 EPS. Pentair's revenue for the quarter was up 2.2% on a year-over-year basis. Pentair has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 1.160-1.20 EPS. FY 2025 guidance at 4.750-4.85 EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Pentair will post 4.77 EPS for the current year.

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.