Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec Increases Stock Position in Pentair plc $PNR

Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec lifted its holdings in Pentair plc (NYSE:PNR) by 32.6% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 170,973 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after acquiring an additional 42,050 shares during the quarter. Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec’s holdings in Pentair were worth $14,957,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of PNR. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD grew its position in shares of Pentair by 0.3% in the 4th quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 228,463 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $22,993,000 after buying an additional 706 shares during the last quarter. Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC purchased a new position in shares of Pentair in the 4th quarter worth approximately $365,000. Nebula Research & Development LLC purchased a new position in shares of Pentair in the 4th quarter worth approximately $227,000. Northern Trust Corp grew its position in shares of Pentair by 27.9% in the 4th quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 1,962,263 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $197,482,000 after buying an additional 428,184 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Lido Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Pentair by 5.4% in the 4th quarter. Lido Advisors LLC now owns 15,732 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $1,583,000 after buying an additional 806 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 92.37% of the company’s stock.

Pentair Stock Performance

PNR opened at $109.44 on Thursday. Pentair plc has a 12-month low of $74.25 and a 12-month high of $110.71. The company has a current ratio of 1.45, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.38. The firm has a market capitalization of $17.94 billion, a PE ratio of 29.90, a P/E/G ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 1.07. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $104.44 and a two-hundred day moving average of $96.03.

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 22nd. The industrial products company reported $1.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.33 by $0.06. Pentair had a net margin of 14.86% and a return on equity of 21.62%. The company had revenue of $1.12 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.12 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.22 EPS. Pentair’s revenue for the quarter was up 2.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Pentair has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 1.160-1.20 EPS. FY 2025 guidance at 4.750-4.85 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that Pentair plc will post 4.77 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Mizuho lifted their price objective on shares of Pentair from $118.00 to $122.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 23rd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price objective on shares of Pentair from $113.00 to $116.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 23rd. Barclays increased their price objective on shares of Pentair from $116.00 to $117.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 23rd. Robert W. Baird increased their price objective on shares of Pentair from $107.00 to $121.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 23rd. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised shares of Pentair from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, July 26th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have issued a Buy rating, three have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $114.36.

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.