Pool Corporation

POOL Industrials Industrial Distribution

Pool Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $5.3 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+3.71%
EPS
0.00%
Free cash flow
+52.8%
Total debt
+9.88%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

216.03 3.23 −1.47%
Market cap
$7.7B
P/E
19.8×
Fwd P/E
18.9×
Dividend yield
2.36%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.64
Beneish M
−2.41
Dividend safety
73/100

Pool Corporation (POOL) Return on invested capital

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Pool Corporation's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 15.7%, down 0.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (15.9%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 15.9% (fiscal 2025) to 28.4% (fiscal 2020) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Industrial Distribution industry median of 7.52% and above the Industrials sector median of 1.86%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 15.9% (2.07)
FY2024 18.0% (2.31)
FY2023 20.3% (4.59)
FY2022 24.9% 1.54
FY2021 23.3% (5.06)
FY2020 28.4% 4.52
FY2019 23.9% 1.43
FY2018 22.5% (2.48)
FY2017 24.9% (0.81)
FY2016 25.7% 2.05

Against its own ten years

Low 15.9% High 28.4%
Ten-year median 23.7%
Current reading's percentile 9

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. compare 17.2%
POOL Pool Corporation 15.7%
WSO Watsco, Inc. compare 14.6%
CNM Core & Main, Inc. compare 10.9%
MSM MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. compare 10.9%
WCC WESCO International, Inc. compare 8.56%
SITE SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. compare 7.52%
QXO QXO, Inc. compare −1.53%
XMTR Xometry, Inc. compare −3.44%
Industrial Distribution industry median 7.52%
Industrials sector median 1.86%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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