Pool Corporation (POOL): Price and Financial Metrics

POOL POWR Grades

• POOL scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 91.91% of US stocks.
• POOL's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 52 weeks.
• POOL's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 7.72% of US stocks).

POOL Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for POOL is 5.18 -- better than 93.13% of US stocks.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for POOL is currently 61.06, higher than 92.65% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• Of note is the ratio of Pool Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 96.21% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Pool Corp are ULTA, TSCO, GWW, JBHT, and DOV.
• POOL's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Pool Corp's official web site, go to www.poolcorp.com.

POOL Valuation Summary

• POOL's price/earnings ratio is 35.9; this is 85.05% higher than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, POOL's price/sales ratio has gone up 3.
• POOL's price/sales ratio has moved up 3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for POOL.

POOL Growth Metrics

• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 34.53%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 138.79%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 29.48%.

POOL's revenue has moved up $2,736,148,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows POOL's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	5,099.287	367.732	602.188
2021-06-30	4,827.068	363.609	536.621
2021-03-31	4,320.081	454.966	434.481
2020-12-31	3,936.623	397.581	366.738
2020-09-30	3,679.597	444.437	325.589
2020-06-30	3,438.868	422.535	286.016

POOL's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• POOL has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 90.56% of graded US stocks.
• POOL's asset turnover comes in at 2.435 -- ranking 24th of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• WLFC, FSTR, and AE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with POOL.

The table below shows POOL's key quality metrics over time.