Forensic Analysis · Trading Companies & Distributors · as of Aug 8, 2026

Pool Corp (POOL)

A forensic read on Pool Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

B · Sound & dependable

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

6.7

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

18.5

P / E (ttm)

34.3%

ROE

$7.3B

Market cap

2.59%

Dividend yield

-0.4%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Pool Corp earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 6.7, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by shareholder returns.

What the filings flag

172% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $531M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 172% of free cash flow. More than free cash flow generated — and beyond operating cash too, so the extra is coming from debt or cash reserves, which isn't sustainable indefinitely. Counting the $23M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 179%.

135d

FY2024→FY2025

Inventory days. Days inventory outstanding moved from 130 to 135 FY2024→FY2025 (against cost of goods sold; inventory +13% vs -0% in cost of sales). Inventory is building a little faster than sales — watch for markdowns.

$5M

FY2020–FY2025

Goodwill impairments. Took $5M of goodwill writedowns across 4 years (FY2022 ($605,000), FY2023 ($550,000), FY2025 ($285,000)) — about 0% of net income over the span. Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$5.29B

Revenue Growth YoY-0.4%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-5.1%

Net Margin7.7%

Free Cash Flow$309.5M

Return on Equity34.3%

Debt / Equity1.01x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 8, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.