What is Zacks Research’s Forecast for Pentair Q3 Earnings?

Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) – Research analysts at Zacks Research cut their Q3 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Pentair in a report released on Tuesday, February 18th. Zacks Research analyst M. Das now expects that the industrial products company will post earnings of $1.22 per share for the quarter, down from their prior estimate of $1.23. The consensus estimate for Pentair’s current full-year earnings is $4.77 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Pentair’s FY2025 earnings at $4.73 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $1.41 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $1.30 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $1.26 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $5.16 EPS.

PNR has been the subject of a number of other reports. Stifel Nicolaus cut their price target on Pentair from $126.00 to $125.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, January 24th. Royal Bank of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $115.00 price target on shares of Pentair in a report on Thursday, November 21st. Oppenheimer boosted their price target on Pentair from $110.00 to $115.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 13th. Northcoast Research raised Pentair from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 5th. Finally, Robert W. Baird upped their target price on Pentair from $106.00 to $114.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 5th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, ten have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $111.25.

Pentair Stock Performance

NYSE PNR opened at $95.17 on Thursday. Pentair has a fifty-two week low of $72.63 and a fifty-two week high of $110.71. The stock has a market cap of $15.73 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.45, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.89 and a beta of 1.20. The business has a fifty day moving average of $100.83 and a 200-day moving average of $97.91. The company has a quick ratio of 0.92, a current ratio of 1.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $1.08 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.02 by $0.06. The company had revenue of $972.90 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $970.95 million. Pentair had a return on equity of 20.94% and a net margin of 15.32%. Pentair’s quarterly revenue was down 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.87 earnings per share.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Pentair

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Harbour Investments Inc. boosted its position in shares of Pentair by 10.7% in the third quarter. Harbour Investments Inc. now owns 6,585 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $644,000 after buying an additional 636 shares during the period. Moody National Bank Trust Division purchased a new stake in shares of Pentair in the fourth quarter worth about $989,000. Algert Global LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Pentair in the third quarter worth about $479,000. FMR LLC boosted its position in shares of Pentair by 4.7% in the third quarter. FMR LLC now owns 5,704,672 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $557,860,000 after buying an additional 258,134 shares during the period. Finally, Pathstone Holdings LLC boosted its position in shares of Pentair by 47.4% in the third quarter. Pathstone Holdings LLC now owns 19,881 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $1,944,000 after buying an additional 6,391 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 92.37% of the company’s stock.

Pentair Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 7th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 24th were paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, January 24th. This is a positive change from Pentair’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.23. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.05%. Pentair’s dividend payout ratio is currently 26.74%.

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.