NASDAQ:POOLPool Stock Price, Forecast & News

Pool's stock was trading at $207.35 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, POOL stock has increased by 52.5% and is now trading at $316.18.
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7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pool in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings, 3 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Pool is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 15th 2020.
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Pool Co. (NASDAQ:POOL) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 23rd. The specialty retailer reported $3.87 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $3.09 by $0.78. The specialty retailer earned $1.28 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.17 billion. Pool had a net margin of 8.32% and a return on equity of 69.72%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 14.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $3.22 EPS.
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Pool declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, August 4th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.58 per share on Thursday, August 27th. This represents a $2.32 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.73%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 12th.
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Pool declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback program on Thursday, May 2nd 2019, which authorizes the company to repurchase $200,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 2.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Pool updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $7.05-$7.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $6.27.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Pool's shares. Their forecasts range from $205.00 to $300.00. On average, they expect Pool's share price to reach $253.14 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 19.9%.
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News articles about POOL stock have been trending neutral this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Pool earned a media sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.
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Pool saw a drop in short interest in the month of February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totaling 951,700 shares, a drop of 15.8% from the January 31st total of 1,130,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 183,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.2 days. Currently, 2.5% of the company's stock are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to Pool include Genuine Parts (GPC), LKQ (LKQ), Core-Mark (CORE), Weyco Group (WEYS) and VOXX International (VOXX).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Pool investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Visa (V), Alibaba Group (BABA), Home Depot (HD), Micron Technology (MU), salesforce.com (CRM), AbbVie (ABBV), Adobe (ADBE) and QUALCOMM (QCOM).

Pool trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "POOL."

Pool's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Congress Asset Management Co. MA (1.18%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (0.82%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.76%), Villere ST Denis J & Co. LLC (0.68%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.45%) and Chilton Investment Co. LLC (0.42%). Company insiders that own Pool stock include Arthur D Cook, De La Mesa Manuel J Perez, Harlan F Seymour, Hart Melanie Housey, Jennifer M Neil, John E Stokely, Mark W Joslin, Peter D Arvan, Robert C Sledd and Romain Kenneth G St.
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POOL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Villere ST Denis J & Co. LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Congress Asset Management Co. MA, Copeland Capital Management LLC, TimesSquare Capital Management LLC, Oak Ridge Investments LLC, Bank of Nova Scotia, and WINTON GROUP Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Pool company stock in the last year include Arthur D Cook, De La Mesa Manuel J Perez, Hart Melanie Housey, Mark W Joslin, and Romain Kenneth G St.
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POOL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Macquarie Group Ltd., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Raymond James & Associates, First Trust Advisors LP, Strs Ohio, Aubrey Capital Management Ltd, and Fenimore Asset Management Inc..
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Shares of POOL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of POOL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $316.18.

Pool has a market capitalization of $12.67 billion and generates $3.20 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $261.58 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.83 on an earnings per share basis. Pool employs 4,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for Pool is www.poolcorp.com.

Pool's mailing address is 109 Northpark Boulevard, Covington LA, 70433. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at 985-892-5521 or via email at [email protected]