NASDAQ:POOL - Pool Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Pool announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 1st. Investors of record on Thursday, March 14th will be given a dividend of $0.45 per share on Thursday, March 28th. This represents a $1.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.13%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 13th. View Pool's Dividend History.

Pool announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Thursday, May 3rd 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy up to 3.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Pool Co. (NASDAQ:POOL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 14th. The specialty retailer reported $0.41 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.44 by $0.03. The specialty retailer had revenue of $543 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $551.58 million. Pool had a return on equity of 80.86% and a net margin of 7.82%. Pool's quarterly revenue was up 6.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.50 earnings per share. View Pool's Earnings History.

Pool is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 18th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Pool.

Pool issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 14th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $6.05-6.35 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $6.21.

3 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Pool's stock. Their forecasts range from $145.00 to $177.00. On average, they expect Pool's stock price to reach $159.6667 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Pool.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pool in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Pool.

News headlines about POOL stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Pool earned a media sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

Pool saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 1,762,439 shares, an increase of 27.8% from the February 15th total of 1,379,443 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 258,713 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.8 days. Currently, 4.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Pool's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Pool investors own include Micron Technology (MU), Constellation Brands (STZ), NVIDIA (NVDA), Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Alibaba Group (BABA), New Age Beverages (NBEV), Lam Research (LRCX) and Yirendai (YRD).

Pool's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.78%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (3.91%), Eagle Asset Management Inc. (2.53%), Atlanta Capital Management Co. L L C (2.27%), Handelsbanken Fonder AB (1.76%) and Congress Asset Management Co. MA (1.67%). 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, Robert C Sledd, Romain Kenneth G St and Wilson B Sexton. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Pool.

POOL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, BlackRock Inc., Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC, Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Royce & Associates LP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Bank of America Corp DE and SG Americas Securities LLC. 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, Jennifer M Neil, John E Stokely, Mark W Joslin, Robert C Sledd and Romain Kenneth G St. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pool.

POOL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Norges Bank, Handelsbanken Fonder AB, Atlanta Capital Management Co. L L C, Epoch Investment Partners Inc., Eaton Vance Management, First Trust Advisors LP, Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Rhumbline Advisers. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pool.

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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of POOL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $158.83.

Pool has a market capitalization of $6.26 billion and generates $3.00 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $234.46 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.62 on an earnings per share basis. Pool employs 4,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Pool is http://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]