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$7.21B market value
From POOL CORP's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026 · read the filing
POOL distributes goods wholesale to other businesses. It took in $5.29B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 8 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by debt and accounting, with profitability worth watching, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From POOL CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$599.7M → $309.5M
Long-term debt
$900.9M → $1.19B
Cash
$77.9M → $105.0M
Operating income
$617.2M → $580.2M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 26, 2026
Deteriorated: -48.4%
$599.7M to $309.5MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
POOL rose 14.36% on the latest quote. The S&P 500 moved −1.04%. That is 15.4 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 23 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 23 analysts publishing on this company, 5 say strong buy, 6 say buy, 11 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 8 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $406.4M last year.
No. Sales shrank 0.4% last year.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 3.0 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.49 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 46 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 51% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodFigures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $406.4M and generated $365.9M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 26, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 27, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 27, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 27, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 27, 2024Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $5.29B | $5.31B | $5.54B | $6.18B | $5.30B | −0.4% |
| Cost of revenue | $3.72B | $3.74B | $3.88B | $4.25B | $3.68B | −0.5% |
| Gross profit | $1.57B | $1.58B | $1.66B | $1.93B | $1.62B | −0.2% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 29.7% | 29.7% | 30.0% | 31.3% | 30.5% | +0.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $992.3M | $958.1M | $913.5M | $907.6M | $784.3M | +3.6% |
| Operating income | $580.2M | $617.2M | $746.6M | $1.03B | $832.8M | −6.0% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 11.0% | 11.6% | 13.5% | 16.6% | 15.7% | −0.7 pts |
| Income before tax | $533.4M | $567.0M | $688.1M | $984.9M | $824.1M | −5.9% |
| Net income | $406.4M | $434.3M | $523.2M | $748.5M | $650.6M | −6.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 7.7% | 8.2% | 9.4% | 12.1% | 12.3% | −0.5 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $11.11 | $11.52 | $13.64 | $19.16 | $16.19 | −3.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POOLPOOL CORP · this page | 7.0/10 | 5/9 | -0.4% | 7.7% | 17.75x |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Gifted shares — 3,963 shares
Holds 896,009 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 3,963 shares
Holds 44,071 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 32 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 13 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from POOL's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 26, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 10.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 7.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
4.02
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.34
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: +31.7%
$900.9M to $1.19BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +34.8%
$77.9M to $105.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -6.0%
$617.2M to $580.2MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -6.4%
$434.3M to $406.4MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: -3.0%
37.7M to 36.6MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: -5.3%
$59.5M to $56.3MNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q1 FY2026 against Q1 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Apr 28, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +23.1%
$13.9M to $17.1MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: +27.5%
$968.0M to $1.23BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Changed: -35.4%
$13.3M to $8.6MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +6.2%
$1.07B to $1.14BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +5.6%
$312.4M to $329.9MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +6.5%
$77.5M to $82.6MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -10.0%
$71.6M to $64.5MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -3.2%
37.7M to 36.4MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
7 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
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About 9.9% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 16.9x — investors pay $16.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
| 2.06x |
| GPCGENUINE PARTS CO | 6.0/10 | 6/9 | 3.5% | 0.3% | 267.06x | 3.70x |
|---|
| Median of peers | 6.0/10 | — | 3.5% | 0.3% | 267.06x | 3.70x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Holds 1,959 shares after this filing.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Signed a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report on Form 10-Q
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +6.2% · Free cash flow +23.1% · Long-term debt +27.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Free cash flow -48.4% · Long-term debt +31.7% · Cash +34.8% — against FY2024
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Cash +40.7% · Long-term debt +19.3% · Shares in issue -2.0% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-26. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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