Is it safe?
Can POOL take a bad year?
Pool Corporation carries $1.20B of net debt at 1.90× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.20B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.90×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.55× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 4.38
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.11×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.26B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $64M
- Net debt
- $1.20B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $629M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $585M
- Debt / equity
- 1.11×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.00×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −68%
- Below its 52-week high
- −42%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.