What changed
$POOL — AVOID 📊
Pool Corporation distributes swimming pool supplies, equipment, related leisure, irrigation, and landscape maintenance products in the United States and internationally.
🎯 Q2 2026 | Rev $1B | EPS $1.43 vs $1.35 🟢
💡 Consensus expects modest gains post-beat, but my variant view is that the stock will underperform due to quantitative headwinds (sector rank 0th percentile, universe rank 0th percentile, expected 6m return -0.0%) and asymmetric downside (-16.8% bear vs +8.0% bull).
📉 Reward/Risk: 0.3:1
🏢 Business Quality: 6/10 - Leading swimming pool distributor with cyclical exposure; reasonable quality but lacks accelerating growth or margins.
📊 Valuation: Fair relative to history (PE 17.5x at median) but rich on risk/reward basis given low growth and sector/quantitative weakness.
📊 Our read: AVOID. Full analysis →
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Why it matters
Pool Corporation distributes swimming pool supplies, equipment, related leisure, irrigation, and landscape maintenance products in the United States and internationally.