William Blair Has Negative Estimate for Generac Q2 Earnings

Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GNRC) – Equities researchers at William Blair cut their Q2 2025 earnings estimates for shares of Generac in a research report issued on Thursday, February 13th. William Blair analyst B. Drab now expects that the technology company will earn $1.80 per share for the quarter, down from their prior estimate of $1.89. The consensus estimate for Generac’s current full-year earnings is $6.91 per share. William Blair also issued estimates for Generac’s Q3 2025 earnings at $2.38 EPS and Q4 2025 earnings at $2.65 EPS.

A number of other equities analysts have also recently weighed in on the stock. Citigroup decreased their price objective on shares of Generac from $172.00 to $162.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, January 8th. The Goldman Sachs Group decreased their price objective on shares of Generac from $193.00 to $168.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday. Piper Sandler decreased their price objective on shares of Generac from $185.00 to $175.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday. Robert W. Baird cut their target price on shares of Generac from $172.00 to $171.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus cut their target price on shares of Generac from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have given a hold rating and twelve have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $174.00.

Generac Stock Performance

NYSE:GNRC opened at $146.80 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.56, a current ratio of 2.03 and a quick ratio of 0.96. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $156.31 and a two-hundred day moving average of $160.61. The stock has a market cap of $8.73 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.46, a PEG ratio of 1.44 and a beta of 1.42. Generac has a 1-year low of $108.89 and a 1-year high of $195.94.

Generac (NYSE:GNRC) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The technology company reported $2.80 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.49 by $0.31. Generac had a net margin of 7.17% and a return on equity of 16.70%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Generac

In other Generac news, CEO Aaron Jagdfeld sold 5,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $145.15, for a total value of $725,750.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 565,825 shares in the company, valued at approximately $82,129,498.75. This trade represents a 0.88 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. 2.90% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in GNRC. Hurley Capital LLC bought a new position in shares of Generac in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Modus Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Generac in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Versant Capital Management Inc boosted its holdings in shares of Generac by 391.9% in the fourth quarter. Versant Capital Management Inc now owns 182 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $28,000 after acquiring an additional 145 shares in the last quarter. Cranbrook Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Generac in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Finally, Brooklyn Investment Group bought a new position in shares of Generac in the third quarter valued at approximately $31,000. 84.04% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

About Generac

Generac Holdings Inc designs, manufactures, and distributes various energy technology products and solution worldwide. The company offers residential automatic standby generators, automatic transfer switch, air-cooled engine residential standby generators, and liquid-cooled engine generators; Mobile Link, a remote monitoring system for home standby generators; residential storage solution, which consists of a system of batteries, an inverter, photovoltaic optimizers, power electronic controls, and other components; smart home solutions, such as smart thermostats and a suite of home monitoring products.