Pentair plc
PNR 6Price and target zones价格与目标区间
In the buy zone在买入区间内
What the company does公司做什么
Pentair makes pumps, filters, and water systems. It sells to pool owners, homes, and factories. The company is old and well established. It earns steady profit from parts that wear out and need to be replaced.Pentair生产水泵、过滤器和水处理系统。客户涵盖泳池业主、家庭用户和工厂。公司历史悠久，根基稳固,靠会磨损、需要更换的零部件赚取稳定利润。
Earns from营收来源 the sale of pumps, filters, and water-treatment equipment through dealers, distributors, and direct commercial accounts.通过经销商、分销商和直接商业客户，销售水泵、过滤器和水处理设备。
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Pentair plc provides various water solutions in the United States, Western Europe, China, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Canada. It 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, specialty insertion valves, water disposal pumps, water supply pumps, fluid transfer pumps, turbine pumps, solid handling pumps, and agricultural spray nozzles. This segment provides products under Pentair Flow, Aurora, Berkeley, Codeline, Fairbanks-Nijhuis, Haffmans, Hydromatic, Hypro, Jung Pumpen, Myers, Sta-Rite, Shurflo, Südmo, and X-Flow brand names. The Water Solutions segment offers commercial and residential water treatment products and systems, such as pressure tanks, control valves, activated carbon products, commercial ice machines, conventional filtration products, and point-of-entry and point-of-use water treatment systems for use in water filtration and water softening solutions, as well as commercial water management and filtration solutions in foodservice operations; and installation and preventative services for water management solutions for commercial operators under the Pentair Water Solutions, Everpure, Fleck, Manitowoc Ice, Pentek, and RainSoft brands. The Pool segment provides residential and commercial pool equipment and accessories, including pumps, filters, heaters, lights, automatic controls and cleaners, chlorinators, maintenance equipment, and pool accessories for residential and commercial pool maintenance, pool repair, renovation, service, construction, and aquaculture solutions. This segment offers products under the Pentair Pool, Kreepy Krauly, Pleatco, and Sta-Rite brands. Pentair plc was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Revenue breakdown营收构成 share of revenue按营收占比
This segment serves commercial kitchens, ice-machine makers, and homes that need clean water. Codes and health regulations require certified equipment, so a rival needs approvals, not just a lower price. Margins are the highest of the three segments.该业务板块服务于商用厨房、制冰机厂商，以及需要洁净水的家庭。法规和卫生标准要求使用经认证的设备，因此对手要拿到相应资质，而不是单靠降价就能竞争。这是三个业务板块中利润率最高的一个。
- Everpure filtration systemsEverpure过滤系统 — water filters for restaurants and foodservice equipment; operators buy them because health codes require certified filtration.面向餐厅和餐饮设备的水过滤器；因卫生法规要求使用经认证的过滤设备，运营商才会采购。
- Water softeners软水器 — remove hard-water minerals for homes; plumbers install the brand they know and trust.为家庭去除硬水中的矿物质；水管工会安装他们熟悉且信赖的品牌。
- Ice-machine water systems制冰机水处理系统 — filtration built into commercial ice makers; equipment makers specify Pentair parts by design.内置于商用制冰机中的过滤装置；设备厂商在设计阶段就指定使用Pentair的零件。
Pool builders and service dealers use Pentair parts because they already know how to install and fix them. In 2026 this segment lost sales fast when distributors cut back on stock they had built up in prior years. The open question is whether dealers are also switching to cheaper competing pumps, not just working through old stock.泳池安装商和维修经销商使用Pentair的零件,因为他们早已熟悉如何安装和维修。2026年，随着分销商削减此前几年积累的库存，该业务板块销售迅速下滑。悬而未决的问题是，经销商是否也在转向更便宜的竞品水泵，而不仅仅是在消化旧库存。
- Pool pumps泳池水泵 — the motor that circulates pool water; a pool cannot run without one.驱动泳池水循环的马达；没有它泳池就无法运转。
- Pool heaters泳池加热器 — warm pool water for extended swim seasons; a comfort upgrade dealers install often.为泳池水加温以延长游泳季节；是经销商常安装的一种舒适性升级。
- Pool automation泳池自动化系统 — app and control systems for pool equipment; sold as a bundle with new pumps and heaters.用于泳池设备的应用程序和控制系统；通常与新水泵和加热器捆绑销售。
This is the most commodity-like segment. Many rivals make similar pumps, so Pentair competes mainly on relationships with distributors and how fast it can deliver parts, not on unique technology.这是三个业务板块中最接近大宗商品化的一个。许多对手都生产类似的水泵，因此Pentair主要靠与分销商的关系和交付零件的速度来竞争，而不是靠独特技术。
- Well pumps井用水泵 — move groundwater to homes not on city water; a basic need in rural areas.将地下水输送到没有接入市政供水的家庭；是农村地区的基本需求。
- Sump pumps污水泵 — remove water from basements to stop flooding; a homeowner safety item.排出地下室积水以防止内涝；是家庭安全用品。
- Irrigation pumps灌溉水泵 — move water for farm and lawn irrigation; sold through farm and garden dealers.为农田和草坪灌溉输送用水；通过农业和园艺经销商销售。
Company facts公司资料
- Founded成立时间
- 1966
- Headquarters总部
- London, the United Kingdom
- Employees员工人数
- 9,000
- Industry行业
- Specialty Industrial Machinery
- Country国家
- United Kingdom
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Would upgrade on
- ANALYZED 8/28 — ACCUMULATE (on weakness), first file. A genuinely good business (four straight years of gross-margin expansion, >100% FCF conversion, a 49-year dividend streak never at risk) hit by a real but plausibly cyclical Pool-channel destocking shock. Valuation is a close call (passes the EV/EBITDA band, less so Graham/DDM on goodwill-inflated book); the $1.4B debt-funded Taco acquisition lifts pro-forma leverage ~1.6x → ~2.6x right as the guided 2027 pool recovery is unproven. FV $50-72. Entry $52-58 (spot ~7% above). Trim 17x fwd.
🟢 8/28 分析——逢弱增持，首份报告。 一家真正优秀的企业（连续四年毛利率扩张，>100% FCF 转化，49 年股息记录从未受威胁）遭遇真实但很可能是周期性的泳池渠道去库存冲击。 估值是接近的判断（通过 EV/EBITDA 区间，Graham/DDM 因商誉抬高的账面则较弱）；$1.4B 债务融资的 Taco 收购把备考杠杆从约 1.6x 抬到约 2.6x，恰逢其指引的 2027 泳池复苏尚未验证。 公允价值 $50-72，买入区 $52-58（现价高约 7%），减持 17x fwd。
Historical results历史业绩 past fiscal years — these values do not change过去财年——这些数值不会变动
Profit margins利润率 the share of revenue that stays as profit营收中留存为利润的比例
of every $1 of revenue每 $1 营收中的占比
- Return on equity净资产收益率
- 17%
- Revenue growth营收增长
- -17%
- Dividend yield股息率
- 2.01%
Competitors竞争对手
Why customers stay客户为什么留下
Pool builders and service dealers do not want to re-certify on a new brand, and codes require certified equipment in Water Solutions. This makes both segments sticky, though the Pool advantage is under a live test from lower-cost rivals.泳池安装商和维修经销商不愿为了换一个新品牌而重新培训认证,而在水处理业务中，法规也要求使用经认证的设备。这让两个业务板块都具有较强的客户粘性，不过泳池业务的这一优势正受到低成本对手的实际考验。
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