POOLPool Corporation

Consumer Cyclical

$159.57-50% 1Y

$159.57

$154.1952 weeks$312.15

Is the price fair?

Fair

Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though cheap against its own history.

1 good, 1 neutral, 1 without data

What the price assumes~+8% a year

Priced for ~8% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.

Vs its own P/E rangecheapest in 40 quartersderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 14.6 vs a 27.2 median over 40 quarters (−46% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)14.4×

Sector median 16.2× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Mar 31, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)better than 72% of the market

FCF yieldmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What POOL's price assumes

Pool Corporation trades at 14.6× earnings against 25.8× for the median Industrial Distribution name, cheaper than its own group.

14.6

Trailing P/E · Industrial Distribution median 25.8 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales: 1.35
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 4.3%
Free cash flow yield · Industrial Distribution median 4.1%
Growth the price implies: +7.6%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +7.6% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −25% a year over the last three.

Details›

Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026: 6.40
EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026: 14.4
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026: 1.58
Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names: 17.8
Industrial Distribution median P/E20 names: 25.8
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months: $313M
Market capitalisation: $7.25B
3-year revenue growth: −3.6%
3-year free cash flow growth: −25%

What the market has paid for these earnings: 40 quarters of its own multiple × $10.90 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$267.51
Its own P/E history, median	$296.71
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$320.35
52-week range	$154.19 – $312.15
Today	$159.57

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.

Industrial Distribution

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