POOL CORPORATION
At today's price, POOL CORPORATION (POOL) is priced for +4.5% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- POOL is the largest wholesale distributor of swimming-pool supplies, and most of its volume is non-discretionary maintenance for an installed base of in-ground pools. That recurring demand is what makes a distribution business worth more than its thin operating margin suggests. - At $198.97 the price embeds only about 3.9% company-wide operating-profit growth per year for five years, a modest bar that sits in the lower half of the peer multiple range and within what the company has recently de
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579 institutional managers reported holding POOL in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 82 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, Wellington Management, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 3.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 10% of shares outstanding (3.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
POOL has cut its share count 9.4% over the past five years, spending $1.54B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 16 years straight; the current rate is $4.95 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $495.75M in dividends and $972.63M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at POOL over the trailing three years: 2026: 5 buys totaling $3.63M. 14 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
POOL's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | +0.9% | -7.5% |
| 2023-10-27 | -1.9% | +28.8% |
| 2024-02-28 | -0.4% | -8.6% |
| 2024-04-30 | -1.6% | -16.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
POOL's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-04 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 5.07, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-23 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-25 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-19 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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