Business quality: about averageValuation: cheaper than most
An average business among industrials companies, priced below most of them.
Pentair trades at 13.5 times the next 12 months of expected earnings, against a median of 21.4x for the 89 industrials stocks we cover. The quality score blends where it ranks on revenue growth, gross margin, operating margin and free-cash-flow margin (net margin for banks and insurers) over the last 12 months, from SEC filings.
- Revenue grew slower than the sector median: −3.9% vs +8.2%
- Keeps more of each sale (gross margin): 41.2% vs 38.1%
- More profitable (operating margin): 19.6% vs 17.5%
- Turns more of its sales into cash: 16.3% vs 13.1%