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Pentair earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
12%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.0 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 21%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 15% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.07×
Cash conversion · 1.18× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −1.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 15% |
| FY2021 | 17% |
| FY2022 | 14% |
| FY2023 | 18% |
| FY2024 | 20% |
| FY2025 | 21% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 21%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 16%
- Free cash flow margin
- 17%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 2.3%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.20B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $716M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $671M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #8 of 44 by Smart Score