Pool Historical PE Ratio
This POOL historical PE ratio page, which was last updated 5/14/2026, presents historical price to earnings information for Pool under both the TTM method and
the annualized method, and presented in both tabular and graphical format for ease of study.
POOL Historical PE Ratio Notes
— Pool Corporation (ticker symbol POOL) is the world’s largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related outdoor products. The company serves a diverse customer base including pool builders, repair professionals, and retailers, supplying everything from chemicals to replacement parts and patio furnishings. POOL’s business model benefits from recurring demand as pools require ongoing maintenance and supplies, even in economic downturns. When you review POOL’s historical P/E ratio, consider that the stock market often values the company at a premium compared to cyclical sectors, due to its steady cash flows and leading market position. Periods of strong housing and remodeling activity, as well as favorable weather, can drive up both earnings and investor sentiment, raising the stock price and, at times, inflating the P/E ratio. Conversely, in years with sluggish consumer spending or harsh economic conditions, earnings growth may slow, and P/E ratios may fall toward or below market averages. Understanding these dynamics will help you interpret the historical price, earnings, and P/E ratio trends you see in the data, especially relative to broader market cycles and changes in consumer and housing trends.
How should the POOL historical PE ratio be determined?
Realizing that PE stands for Price to Earnings ratio, we need two values to compute it: stock price and earnings per share. The stock price at any given date is a known historical value, but what about the earnings number to use?
✔️Accepted answer:
There are a number of different approaches when it comes to calculating a historical PE ratio for a company like Pool. We like to take our measurements on each of the past quarterly earnings reports. That only leaves the question of whether the earnings number at that quarterly report should be used on an annualized basis, or some other method. We approach this question using three different methods, on this POOL Historical PE Ratio page.
What is the average historical PE for POOL based on annualized quarterly earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use that quarter's earnings result annualized?
✔️Accepted answer:
The POOL historical PE ratio using the annualized quarterly earnings method works out to 60.4.
What is the average historical PE for POOL based on trailing twelve month earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use the trailing twelve months combined earnings result in the calculation?
✔️Accepted answer:
The POOL historical PE ratio using the TTM earnings method works out to 29.2.
What is the average historical PE for POOL based on median TTM earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use the median earnings over the trailing twelve months and annualize that median result in the calculation?
✔️Accepted answer:
The POOL historical PE ratio using the annualized median TTM earnings method works out to 9.68.
On this page we presented the
Pool Historical PE Ratio information for Pool' stock.
The average POOL historical PE based on using the annualized quarterly earnings result at each measurement period (for the "E" in the PE calculation; and the closing price on earnings date as the "P") is 60.4. Meanwhile, using the trailing twelve month (TTM) quarterly earnings result as our method of calculation the "E" value at each measurement period, the average POOL historical PE based on this TTM earnings result method is 29.2. Note: any PE calculations involving negative earnings were discarded as not meaningful.
Let's now compare this POOL historical PE result, against the recent PE: when this page was posted on 5/13/2026, the most recent closing price for POOL had been 175.37, and the most recent quarterly earnings result, annualized, was 5.8. Meanwhile, the most recent TTM earnings summed to 10.87. From these numbers, we calculate the recent POOL PE on 5/13/2026 based on annualized quarterly EPS was 30.2. Based on POOL's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 50.0% lower than the historical average PE across our data set for Pool. Looking at the recent POOL PE on 5/13/2026 based on TTM EPS, we calculate the ratio at 16.1. Based on POOL's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 44.9% lower than the average PE across our Pool data set with TTM EPS used in the calculation at each period.
Another interesting POOL historical PE Ratio calculation we look at is to take the
median earnings per share of the last four quarters for POOL, and then annualize the resulting value... with that annualized number then being used in the PE calculation. To walk through this math for POOL, we start with the past four EPS numbers and we first sort them from lowest to highest: 0.85, 1.45, 3.40, and 5.17. We then toss out the highest and lowest result, and then take the average of those two middle numbers — 1.45 and 3.40 — which gives us the median of 2.42. Basically the way to think about this 2.42 number is this: for the trailing four earnings reports, 2.42 marks the "middle ground" number where POOL has reported a value
higher than 2.42 half the time, and has reported a value
lower than 2.42 half the time. Annualizing that median value then gets us to 9.68/share, which we use as the denominator in our next PE calculation. With 175.37 as the numerator (as of 5/13/2026), the calculation is then 175.37 / 9.68 =
18.1 as the POOL PE ratio as of 5/13/2026, based on that annualized median value we calculated.
For self directed investors doing their due diligence on POOL or any other given stock, valuation analysis for POOL
can greatly benefit from studying the past earnings and resulting PE calculations. This exercise can help inform an analysis
as to whether the past earnings trajectory and current versus historical PE ratios justify the current stock value.
That's why we bring you
HistoricalPERatio.com to make it easy for investors to investigate
Pool PE history or the past PE information for any stock in our coverage universe.
And in your continued research we hope you will be sure to check out the further links included for earnings
surprises history (beat/miss data) as well as next earnings dates for POOL. Thanks for visiting, and the next
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