Do Wall Street Analysts Like Pool Corporation Stock?

Covington, Louisiana-based Pool Corporation (POOL) distributes swimming excavation supplies, equipment, related leisure, irrigation, and scenery attraction products. Valued astatine $8.9 cardinal by marketplace cap, the company offers a divers scope of products from operation materials, replacement parts, and fencing to excavation attraction products and spas.

Shares of this world’s starring distributor of excavation supplies person underperformed the broader marketplace implicit the past year. POOL has declined 34.1% implicit this clip frame, portion the broader S&P 500 Index ($SPX) has rallied astir 11%. In 2025, POOL banal is down 29.6%, compared to SPX’s 12.3% emergence connected a YTD basis.

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Narrowing the focus, POOL’s underperformance is besides evident compared to the Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLI). The exchange-traded money has gained astir 6.4% implicit the past year. Moreover, the ETF’s 13.6% gains on a YTD ground outshine the stock’s losses implicit the aforesaid clip frame.

On Oct. 23, POOL shares closed up marginally aft reporting its Q3 results. Its adjusted EPS of $3.39 topped Wall Street expectations of $3.38. The company’s gross was $1.5 billion, gathering Wall Street forecasts. POOL expects full-year EPS to beryllium $10.81 to $11.31.

For the existent fiscal year, ending successful December, analysts expect POOL’s EPS to diminution 1.8% to $10.87 connected a diluted basis. The company’s net astonishment past is mixed. It bushed the statement estimation successful 3 of the past 4 quarters portion missing the forecast connected different occasion.

Among the 15 analysts covering POOL stock, the statement is simply a “Moderate Buy.” That’s based connected 4 “Strong Buy” ratings, 10 “Holds,” and 1 “Moderate Sell.”

This configuration is little bullish than 2 months ago, with 5 analysts suggesting a “Strong Buy.”

On Oct. 27, Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (OPY) analyst Scott Schneeberger maintained a “Buy” standing connected POOL and acceptable a terms people of $346, implying a imaginable upside of 44.2% from existent levels.

The mean terms people of $329.27 represents a 37.2% premium to POOL’s existent terms levels. The Street-high terms people of $375 suggests a notable upside imaginable of 56.3%.

On the day of publication, Neha Panjwani did not person (either straight oregon indirectly) positions successful immoderate of the securities mentioned successful this article. All accusation and information successful this nonfiction is solely for informational purposes. This nonfiction was originally published connected Barchart.com