Pool Corporation (POOL): Price and Financial Metrics

POOL POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where POOL ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 82.29% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for POOL is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• POOL ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 5th percentile.

POOL Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for POOL CORP is higher than 95.56% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• Of note is the ratio of POOL CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 96.24% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 187.35%, POOL CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 92.75% of about US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to POOL, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are VFC, AAP, WSO, CINF, and BLDR.
• Visit POOL's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.poolcorp.com.

POOL Valuation Summary

• POOL's price/sales ratio is 2.1; this is 200% higher than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, POOL's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 4.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for POOL.

POOL Growth Metrics

The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 181.4%.
• Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 29.08%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 68.3%.

Over the past 52 months, POOL's revenue has gone up $3,087,826,000.

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
2022-06-30	5,915.473	154.993	778.818
2022-03-31	5,647.488	28.268	731.23
2021-12-31	5,295.584	313.49	650.624
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

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.