Seaport Res Ptn Issues Negative Outlook for Pentair Earnings

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) – Equities researchers at Seaport Res Ptn decreased their Q2 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of Pentair in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday, October 22nd. Seaport Res Ptn analyst S. Graham now expects that the industrial products company will post earnings of $1.35 per share for the quarter, down from their previous estimate of $1.36. The consensus estimate for Pentair’s current full-year earnings is $4.27 per share.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, October 22nd. The industrial products company reported $1.09 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.07 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $993.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $988.53 million. Pentair had a return on equity of 20.48% and a net margin of 16.29%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.94 EPS.

A number of other research analysts have also recently issued reports on the stock. UBS Group lifted their price target on shares of Pentair from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday. TD Cowen boosted their price target on Pentair from $95.00 to $110.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday. KeyCorp raised their price objective on Pentair from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Northcoast Research cut Pentair from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, July 19th. Finally, Oppenheimer raised their price target on Pentair from $98.00 to $110.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, Pentair presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $104.80.

Pentair Stock Performance

Shares of Pentair stock opened at $99.39 on Friday. Pentair has a 12 month low of $57.18 and a 12 month high of $99.96. The firm has a market capitalization of $16.45 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.85, a P/E/G ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a current ratio of 1.60, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $92.53 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $84.83.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Pentair

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. abrdn plc increased its position in Pentair by 5.6% during the third quarter. abrdn plc now owns 723,220 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $70,330,000 after acquiring an additional 38,329 shares during the last quarter. Pallas Capital Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Pentair during the 3rd quarter valued at about $618,000. Hunter Associates Investment Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Pentair during the 3rd quarter valued at about $231,000. State of Alaska Department of Revenue lifted its stake in shares of Pentair by 7.2% in the 3rd quarter. State of Alaska Department of Revenue now owns 19,235 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $1,880,000 after purchasing an additional 1,300 shares during the period. Finally, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale boosted its holdings in shares of Pentair by 11.9% in the third quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale now owns 1,489,715 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $143,823,000 after buying an additional 158,433 shares during the last quarter. 92.37% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Pentair Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, November 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 18th will be given a $0.23 dividend. This represents a $0.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 18th. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 23.00%.

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.