Pentair (PNR) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

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. The Water Solutions segment provides commercial and residential water treatment products and systems, including pressure tanks, control valves, activated carbon products, commercial ice machines, conventional filtration products, and point-of-entry and point-of-use water treatment systems, as well as installation and preventative services for use in residential whole home water filtration, drinking water filtration, and water softening solutions, as well as commercial total water management and filtration in foodservice operations. The Pool segment provides residential and commercial pool equipment and accessories comprising pumps, filters, heaters, lights, automatic controls, automatic cleaners, maintenance equipment, and pool accessories for applications in residential and commercial pool maintenance, pool repair, renovation, service, and construction and aquaculture solutions. Pentair plc was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $89.45 to $90.92
• 50-Day Range: $76.00 to $96.61
• 52-Week Range: $72.63 to $110.71
• Volume: 884,454 shs
• Average Volume: 1.50 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $14.85 billion
• P/E Ratio: 24.07
• Dividend Yield: 1.11%
• Price Target: $106.93
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Pentair Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Pentair scored higher than 91% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 9th out of 321 stocks in the business services sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.5 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Pentair has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.94, and is based on 11 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Pentair has been the subject of 9 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 10.48%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Pentair are expected to grow by 10.48% in the coming year, from $4.77 to $5.27 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Pentair is 24.07, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 21.69.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Pentair is 24.07, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Business Services sector average P/E ratio of about 30.85.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Pentair has a PEG Ratio of 1.87. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Pentair has a P/B Ratio of 4.17. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.96% of the float of Pentair has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Pentair has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Pentair has recently increased by 38.96%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Moderate

Dividend Yield

Pentair pays a meaningful dividend of 1.16%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Pentair does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Pentair is 25.84%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Pentair will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.98% next year. This indicates that Pentair will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Environmental Score: -2.03

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.96% of the float of Pentair has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Pentair has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Pentair has recently increased by 38.96%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.6 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.60

News Sentiment

Pentair has a news sentiment score of 0.60. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.78 average news sentiment score of Business Services companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 51 news articles for Pentair this week, compared to 11 articles on an average week.

MarketBeat Follows

2 people have added Pentair to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Pentair insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 1.10% of the stock of Pentair is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

92.37% of the stock of Pentair is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

PNR Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have PNR shares performed this year?

Pentair's stock was trading at $100.64 at the start of the year. Since then, PNR stock has decreased by 10.6% and is now trading at $90.01.
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How were Pentair's earnings last quarter?

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 22nd. The industrial products company reported $1.11 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.01 by $0.10. The industrial products company earned $1.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $988.38 million. Pentair had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.94% and a net margin of 15.32%.
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Does Pentair have any subsidiaries?

The following companies are subsidiaries of Pentair: Manitowoc Ice, Pleatco, Ken's Beverage, Rocean, Aquion, Union Engineering A/S, Erico Global, and more.

Who are Pentair's major shareholders?

Top institutional shareholders of Pentair include Bessemer Group Inc. (0.73%), KBC Group NV (0.64%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.48%) and Vest Financial LLC (0.32%). Insiders that own company stock include Jerome O Pedretti, T Michael Glenn, Glynis Bryan, David A /Wi Jones, Philip M Rolchigo and John L Stauch.
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How do I buy shares of Pentair?

Shares of PNR stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.

What other stocks do shareholders of Pentair own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Pentair investors own include Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), American Water Works (AWK), Waste Connections (WCN), Humana (HUM), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), The RMR Group (RMR) and Voyager Therapeutics (VYGR).

Company Calendar

• Record date for 2/7 Dividend: 1/24/2025
• Ex-Dividend for 2/7 Dividend: 1/24/2025
• Dividend Payable: 2/07/2025
• Ex-Dividend for 5/2 Dividend: 4/17/2025
• Record date for 5/2 Dividend: 4/18/2025
• Last Earnings: 4/22/2025
• Today: 4/25/2025
• Dividend Payable: 5/02/2025
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Business Services
• Industry: Special industry machinery, except metalworking machinery
• Sub-Industry: Industrial Machinery
• Current Symbol: NYSE:PNR
• CIK: 77360
• Web: www.pentair.com
• Phone: 447494216154
• Fax: 763-656-5400
• Employees: 11,200
• Year Founded: 1966

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: $106.93
• High Stock Price Target: $125.00
• Low Stock Price Target: $95.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +18.4%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.94
• Research Coverage: 16 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): $3.87
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 24.14
• Forward P/E Ratio: 18.93
• P/E Growth: 1.87
• Net Income: $625.40 million
• Net Margins: 15.32%
• Pretax Margin: 17.61%
• Return on Equity: 20.94%
• Return on Assets: 11.05%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.46
• Current Ratio: 1.60
• Quick Ratio: 0.92

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $4.08 billion
• Price / Sales: 3.65
• Cash Flow: $4.81 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 18.77
• Book Value: $21.56 per share
• Price / Book: 4.19

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 164,970,000
• Free Float: 163,413,000
• Market Cap: $14.90 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.13