In short: BUY. ER 12.91%; fwd PE 21.2 vs 27.3 (22.3% under); RDCF 5.5% vs 8.1%. YTD −23.8%.
In short: BUY. ER 12.61% on 8.12% growth and a 2.7% yield; fwd PE 21.2 against a 27.3 average (22.3% under); RDCF 6.8% required vs 8.1% expected (+1.3pp). Fair value $242.7 vs $188.87. YTD −17.8%; five-year CAGR −15.8%.
In short: BUY. FV $270.2 vs $219.5 = 18.8% under; ER 12.2%; fwd PE 21.2 against 27.3 (22.3% under); RDCF 6.1% vs 8.1% expected. YTD −4.5%, much improved from June's −19.9%.
In short: BUY. FV $238.4 vs $185.5 = 22.2% under; ER 12.6%; fwd PE 21.2 against 27.3 (22.3% under); RDCF 8.3% required vs 8.1% expected — essentially fair. YTD −19.9% on a −14.7% five-year CAGR.
In short: Fifth-worst performer at -12.8%, from the published table. No commentary.
In short: BUY. EPS growth 8.12%, dividend 2.30%, FWD PE 21.2 against a fair exit 25, expected return 12.21%, fair value 256.2 against 208.1 = 18.78% undervalued.
In short: UPGRADED Hold → Buy — "a dominant distributor in the swimming pool supply industry." 18.9x forward against a 27.3x five-year average (30.8% under), expected return 13.7%, reverse-DCF essentially balanced at −0.2pp. It had already been a Best Buy in January and March.
In short: Best Buy #5 (repeat from January). "AI isn't the problem for Pool Corporation right now. Making too much money during the COVID-19 pandemic is." Demand peaked in 2022 and earnings have fallen since, but every pool built in the boom needs chemicals and maintenance for decades — "Pool Corporation benefits a lot from these recurring sales. Short term investors are seeing the earnings decline as permanent." 125,000 customers and economies of scale. "Buying a business with recurring sales and a strong moat like Pool during a cyclical bottom is often a great investment for a long-term investor."
Pool Corp returns from January's list, and the framing is sharper: "AI isn't the problem for Pool Corporation right now. Making too much money during the COVID-19 pandemic is." It is the world's largest wholesaler of swimming-pool supplies, and its advantage is scale — 125,000 customers means it buys and distributes more cheaply than anyone else can.
During the pandemic, people stuck at home with stimulus money built pools. That demand peaked in 2022 and has fallen since, dragging earnings down, and the market is treating the decline as permanent. Slegers points at what the boom left behind: every one of those new pools needs chemicals and maintenance products for the next few decades, and Pool Corp sells them. Buying a business with recurring revenue and a real moat at a cyclical bottom is, in his words, "often a great investment for a long-term investor."
In short: DOWNGRADED Buy → Hold — "leading consolidator and distributor in the swimming pool supplies." The archive's clearest rating whipsaw: Best Buy #1 in January, cut to Hold here, and back as Best Buy #5 four weeks later in March on an unchanged installed-base argument. No numbers are given for the downgrade.
Pool Corp is the largest wholesaler of swimming-pool supplies in the US, and the archive's clearest example of a rating that moves faster than the thesis. It was Best Buy #1 in January on the argument that pandemic-era pool building left behind an installed base needing chemicals and maintenance for decades. Here, three weeks later, it is cut from Buy to Hold with no figures given. Four weeks after that it is Best Buy #5 again, on exactly the same installed-base argument.
Nothing about the business changed across those eleven weeks. What moved was the price relative to the model's fair value — which is a fair reason for a mechanical rating to flip, and a reason to read the monthly rating as a valuation signal rather than as a verdict on the company.
In short: Best Buy #5. The world's largest wholesale distributor of pool supplies, equipment and outdoor-living products, serving ~125,000 wholesale customers across several continents; Berkshire Hathaway is a holder. "Pool Corporation's advantage comes down to one simple idea: economies of scale." Revenue and earnings have fallen since the 2022 post-COVID peak on a weak macro backdrop — "And yet… We think Pool Corporation remains an amazing company. Steady cash flows… Nobody can match their scale."
Pool Corp is the wholesaler that supplies everyone who builds and services swimming pools: pumps, chemicals, parts, outdoor-living products. It is the largest such distributor in the world, serving around 125,000 trade customers, and Berkshire Hathaway owns a stake. Its advantage is plain economies of scale — the bigger the buyer, the cheaper it buys and the cheaper it can deliver, which no smaller rival can match.
The problem is a hangover, not a decline. During COVID, people stuck at home with government cheques built pools; demand peaked in 2022 and has fallen since, taking revenue and earnings down with it. Slegers thinks short-term investors are mistaking a cyclical trough for a permanent one — and that all those pools built during the boom now need chemicals and maintenance products for decades, which is exactly the recurring revenue Pool Corp collects.
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