Pentair plc · PNR · FY2024 Q4 · Calendar Q1 2025

Pentair: Margin gains and raised 2025 outlook face tariff and demand risks

The call analysis supports a margin-led case for resilience: management reported record FY2024 profitability and raised 2025 guidance while emphasizing transformation, 80/20 productivity and targeted demand drivers. The evidence is balanced by flat sales, tariff exposure and unresolved residential and industrial demand pressures.

Reported Before market openNYSEIndustrials $8.53B market cap
80quality score

Earnings scorecard

Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS — Consensus $1.02
EPS surprise — Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue — Consensus $971.0M
Revenue surprise — Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

prior-close to event-session close
Stock move -4.3% Event window
SPY move +0.7% Same window
Abnormal move -4.9% Stock minus SPY
Volume 2.7× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift -7.2% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

Compared with the prior-quarter analysis, the company moved from a raised FY2024 EPS outlook to reported FY2024 records and 2025 guidance. It also added the Gulfstream pool acquisition, a higher 2026 return-on-sales target and explicit tariff assumptions in its outlook.

Guidance delta

Management raised its outlook: 2025 adjusted EPS was guided to $4.65-$4.80, with sales flat to +2% and return on sales of about 24.5%-25%.

Key takeaways

  • Pentair reported record FY2024 adjusted operating income, return on sales and EPS despite flat sales, according to the call analysis.
  • Management attributed margin progress to its Transformation program and 80/20 initiative, with $80 million of expected 2025 productivity savings.
  • Strong free cash flow supported a 9% dividend increase, share repurchases and potential bolt-on acquisitions.
  • Commercial PFAS-certified filtration, pool aftermarket demand and productivity savings were identified as growth drivers.
  • Tariffs, delayed industrial CapEx and a slower residential recovery remain the main offsets to the margin-focused outlook.

Management priorities

  • Complete the portfolio-wide 80/20 rollout and pursue productivity savings.
  • Launch new products, expand water solutions and pool initiatives, and integrate the Gulfstream acquisition.
  • Maintain dividend growth, share repurchases and disciplined capital allocation while considering bolt-on acquisitions.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
PNR EPS earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 4 future estimate-only quarters. Q1 '24 estimate $0.90 Q1 '24 actual $0.94, beat Q2 '24 estimate $1.14 Q2 '24 actual $1.22, beat Q3 '24 estimate $1.07 Q3 '24 actual $1.09, beat Q2 '25 estimate $1.34 Q2 '25 actual $1.39, beat Q3 '25 estimate $1.18 Q3 '25 actual $1.24, beat Q4 '25 estimate $1.17 Q4 '25 actual $1.18, match Q1 '26 estimate $1.17 Q1 '26 actual $1.22, beat Q2 '26 estimate $1.12 Q2 '26 actual $1.14, beat Q3 '26 estimate $1.07 Q4 '26 estimate $1.21 Q1 '27 estimate $1.26 Q2 '27 estimate $1.32
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusHold41 ratings
Bullish1536.6%
Neutral2151.2%
Bearish512.2%

1 unmapped firm rating excluded from the percentages.

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$52.55Current
$41Low
$88.5Average
$135High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted current price from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 19, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

FMP grade actions identify the grading firm, not a named analyst.

FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Mizuho Outperform OutperformMaintainOct 15, 2026
TD Cowen Hold SellUpgradeOct 14, 2026
RBC Capital Sector Perform Sector PerformMaintainOct 14, 2026
Citigroup Buy BuyMaintainOct 12, 2026
Goldman Sachs Neutral NeutralMaintainOct 9, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $52.55. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
Mizuho SecuritiesAnalyst unavailable$65$52.11 +23.7%Oct 15, 2026
William BlairAnalyst unavailable$50$52.97 -4.9%Oct 14, 2026
Goldman SachsBrian Lee$60$52.3 +14.2%Oct 9, 2026
Wolfe ResearchNigel Coe$91$56.18 +73.2%Sep 15, 2026
Robert W. BairdAnalyst unavailable$80$66.77 +52.2%Jul 29, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Pentair plc engages in the provision of water solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, infrastructure, and agricultural applications. It operates through the following segments: Flow, Water Solutions, and Pool. The Flow segment designs, manufactures, and sells various 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, while serving the global residential, commercial, and industrial markets.…

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Sources

  1. Earnings call transcript and parsed analysis · 2026-05-11T10:29:34.698584+00:00
  2. FN2 earnings calendar · 2025-01-21T00:01:13.267231+00:00
  3. Polygon adjusted daily market bars · 2026-10-19T15:10:45.579453+00:00
  4. Financial Modeling Prep analyst price-target consensus and quote snapshot · 2026-10-19T15:10:45.576540+00:00

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