Pool Corp (POOL)

• Market cap: $13.2B
• 1 day: -1.32%
• 5 days: 0.96%
• 1 month: -8.33%
• 3 months: -6.30%
• 6 months: 11.12%
• Year to date: -10.60%
• 1 year: -13.44%
• 5 years: 63.14%
• 10 years: 447.40%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Miscellaneous Durable Goods

About: Pool Corp distributes swimming pool supplies and related products. It sells national-brand and private-label products to approximately 120000 customers. The products include non-discretionary pool-maintenance products, like chemicals and replacement parts, as well as pool equipment, like packaged pools (kits to build swimming pools), cleaners, filters, heaters, pumps, and lights. Customers include pool builders and remodelers, independent retail stores, and pool repair and service companies.

Employees: 6,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

15% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $12.3B [Q2] → $14.1B (+$1.88B) [Q3]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q2] → 5 (+0) [Q3]

4% less funds holding

Funds holding: 731 [Q2] → 704 (-27) [Q3]

5.65% less ownership

Funds ownership: 104.14% [Q2] → 98.49% (-5.65%) [Q3]

21% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 230 | Existing positions reduced: 292

25% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 79 | Existing positions closed: 106

35% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $32.5M | Put options by funds: $49.7M

Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $340 2% downside
• Avg. target: $380 9% upside
• High target: $408 18% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 1 20%
• neutral: 4 80%
• negative: 0 0%

Stifel W. Andrew Carter 68% 1-year accuracy 17 / 25 met price target	2% downside $340	Hold Maintained	28 Oct 2024
Oppenheimer Scott Schneeberger 33% 1-year accuracy 12 / 36 met price target	11% upside $386	Outperform Maintained	28 Oct 2024
Loop Capital Garik Shmois 53% 1-year accuracy 10 / 19 met price target	14% upside $395	Hold Maintained	25 Oct 2024
Baird David Manthey 43% 1-year accuracy 16 / 37 met price target	18% upside $408	Neutral Maintained	16 Oct 2024
Wells Fargo Sam Reid 21% 1-year accuracy 5 / 24 met price target	7% upside $370	Equal-Weight Maintained	7 Oct 2024