QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Industrial Specialties
Pool POOL
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 21% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading near our fair value estimate, 7% over its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $194.95−9%
- Market Value
- $200.42price +7%
- Off 52-wk high
- −21%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.49
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Dip: business intact
The price is 21% below its 52-week high (Feb 11), but the business held up: revenue growth rate +3.5 pts, free cash flow +12.0%, shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more.
Some numbers held up (revenue growth rate +3.5 pts, free cash flow +12.0%, shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more), others slipped. The price is 21% below its 52-week high.
The price is 21% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
The evidence 10 numbers, high vs now
- Revenue, last 12 months$5.3B → $5.4B (+2.9%)held up
- Revenue growth rate−0.6% → +2.9% a year (+3.5 pts)held up
- Earnings per share, 12 months$11.02 → $10.96 (−0.5%)about the same
- Free cash flow, 12 months$395M → $442M (+12.0%)held up
- Operating margin11.1% → 10.5% (−0.6 pts)about the same
- Shares outstanding−3.5% (fewer shares, each owns more)held up
- Net cash (cash minus debt)−1.7% of market cap since the highheld up
- Stock vs its sector (Consumer Discretionary)stock −21%, sector median +2% since Feb 11changed
- Price fall vs business numbersprice −21%, revenue/EPS/FCF median +3% (shown, not scored)
- Valuation multipleP/FCF 25.6× at the high → 17.5× now (shown, not scored)
Business numbers as reported at the high (12 months to Sep 30, 2025) vs the latest filing (12 months to Sep 30, 2026). Each measure is scored from −1 (business changed) to +1 (business intact) and weighted: revenue, earnings per share, free cash flow, operating margin, revenue growth rate, share count, net cash and the move vs its sector. 60 or more reads as a dip, 40 or less as a repricing. Analyst estimates are not in our data, so they are not used. How to read it
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($271.48, Feb 11) the price assumed about 12%/yr free-cash-flow growth; at the low ($154.14, Oct 7) about 6%; today about 5%. The last 3 years delivered −11%/yr (free cash flow).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, −11%/yr (free cash flow)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $271.48Feb 11 | $154.14Oct 7 | $214.76 |
| Implied growth | +12% | +6% | +5% |
| P/E | 24.6× | 14.0× | 19.6× |
| P/FCF | 25.6× | 18.5× | 17.5× |
| EV/Sales | 2.1× | 1.3× | 1.6× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price sits inside the range.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, POOL’s free cash flow would need to grow about 5% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much POOL moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 3.0× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.49
- Volatility
- 39% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.16
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.01
How it ranks
Where POOL stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 2 of 6 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate9% · price above our base caseLowest 47%of 1,314
- Free cash flow yield5.7% · free cash flow vs market capTop 33%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield7.3% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capTop 13%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+2.9% · vs the 12 months beforeLowest 21%of 1,814
- Operating margin11% · of sales kept as operating profitLowest 45%of 1,288
- Return on invested capital19% · profit per dollar of capitalTop 24%of 838
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $194.95 · MV $200.42 · FCF value $251.02
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew -5.1% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $12.30 a share (trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 28, 2026.
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 5.7% (price / FCF 17.5×): $442M of free cash in the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 30% over the last 12 months.
Cash returnsShare count down 3.5% in a year: $380M of buybacks over 12 months.
ProfitabilityReturn on invested capital of 19%, above the 9.5% discount rate our DCF uses.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.4% ($186M paid over 12 months, 47% of earnings).
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 11.0% in FY2025 from 13.5% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales shrank 5% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity fell 6 points in two fiscal years, to 34% in FY2025.
GrowthSales grew 2.9% over the last 12 months, below the 6.7% median for the 376 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
ValuationTrades 7.2% above its Market Value of $200.42, the average price paid since the Oct 22 filing.
All fundamentals
P/E 19.6 · FCF yield 5.7% · ROE 30%
Valuation
- P/E
- 19.6×Consumer Discretionary median 20.7×
- Price / FCF
- 17.5×
- FCF yield
- 5.7%
- EV / EBITDA
- 14.1×
- Price / sales
- 1.42×
- Price / book
- 6.29×
- Market cap
- $7.7Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $8.8B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $5.4B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +2.9%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −5.1%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $10.90
- EPS growth, last FY
- −4.0%
- Net income, 12 months
- $394M
- Net income growth
- −4%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 29.4%
- Operating margin
- 10.5%
- Net margin
- 7.2%
- FCF margin
- 8.1%
- Return on equity
- 30%
- Return on invested capital
- 19%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $106M
- Total debt
- $1.2B
- Net cash
- −$1.1B
- Debt / equity
- 0.95×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $442M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +12%
- Dividend yield
- 2.42%$186M paid
- Payout ratio
- 47%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $380M4.9% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −3.5%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $28M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From Pool’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.4B · Sales +4%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.4B
- Free-cash-flow yield5.7%
- Free-cash-flow margin7%
- Gross margin29%
- Operating margin11%
- Return on invested capital19%
- Return on equity30%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+4%
- Net debt / EBITDA2.2×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $214.76
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$154.14−28.2%
- Fair value est.base case$194.95−9.2%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 22$200.42−6.7%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$214.76you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$271.48+26.4%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 79 · 5 days +10.0%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
POOL is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Pool in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
Donald TrumpUS PresidentPublic figure
Trump confirms Reflecting Pool event before Election DayNBC News ·
Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET. Matched by name against a maintained list plus the company’s own executives. Information only, not advice.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Industrial Specialties
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.