Ingersoll Rand Inc. (IR) earnings on April 28, 2026
More Ingersoll Rand Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
The stock fell after reporting earnings, dropping as much as 5.27% during the day and closing down 4.59%.
IR price around the earnings
77.46
Change: -4.6%
2026-04-29, 19:59 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
Analysts cautious, risk outweighs reward.
Experts are cautious because the stock has been underperforming and analysts have recently lowered their price targets. There is also concern that recent positive retail sentiment might be misleading, especially given the company's past struggles with earnings.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Analysts cautious, risk outweighs reward.
- Playbook
- Given the negative outlook and historical performance issues, the scenario remains pessimistic until a clearer positive trend emerges.
- Trend
- Analyst sentiment slightly improved, still negative.
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Negative
Several analysts have recently reduced their price targets, suggesting they are less optimistic about the stock's future price, even though they still recommend holding it.
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2.06
- Analysts covering the stock
- 15
- Average price target
- 98.93
- Lowest price target
- 82
- Highest price target
- 115
- Upside to price target
- 16.7%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 15.8%
- Revenue growth
- 10.1%
- Forward EPS
- 3.87
- Trailing EPS
- 1.43
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 5
- Strong buy: 1
- Buy: 7
- Hold: 8
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 1
- Buy
- 7
- Hold
- 8
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- April 14, 2026 · Stifel: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
- April 13, 2026 · Citigroup: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- April 1, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- April 1, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- February 23, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Maintains rating (In-Line → In-Line)
News and sentiment
Drivers
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News & sentiment
Negative
A very high level of positive chatter among retail investors, occurring on low market review volume, could be a misleading context.
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (4)
- Stifel Maintains Hold on Ingersoll Rand, Lowers Price Target to $90 — Benzinga
- Citigroup Maintains Buy on Ingersoll Rand, Lowers Price Target to $113 — Benzinga
- Barclays Maintains Overweight on Ingersoll Rand, Lowers Price Target to $100 — Benzinga
- Wells Fargo Maintains Overweight on Ingersoll Rand, Lowers Price Target to $90 — Benzinga
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Negative
The stock has performed worse than the broader market over the last month, indicating a weak underlying trend.
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 3.3%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -16.0%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +6.0%
- 30-day change
- -1.9%
- 30-day relative strength
- -5.6%
- Benchmark change
- +3.8%
- Nearest support
- 76.14
- Nearest resistance
- 89.09
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.92
Trends
Drivers
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Macro & trends
Negative
The company has a history of missing earnings expectations, suggesting underlying business performance may not be as strong as hoped.
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- -1.9%
- February 12, 2026: actual EPS 0.67 vs estimate 0.71 (surprise -5.1%)
- October 30, 2025: actual EPS 0.86 vs estimate 0.86 (surprise -0.3%)
- July 31, 2025: actual EPS 0.8 vs estimate 0.8 (surprise +0.2%)
- May 1, 2025: actual EPS 0.72 vs estimate 0.74 (surprise -2.3%)
Expected move
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 3%
- 75th percentile move
- 5.4%
- 90th percentile move
- 7.7%
- Up / down moves
- 9 / 10
- Average up move
- +2.7%
- Average down move
- -4.8%
Monitoring and close
What Ingersoll Rand Inc. reported
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Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- -4.6%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 5.3%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0%