Pool Corp (NASDAQ:POOL)

dhadcock (82.08) Submitted: 9/15/2006 9:24:17 PM : Start Price: $35.49 POOL Score: -3.44

5 year EPS growth rate of 23%, unchanged of late - 30% this last year. Great stock historically, no 20%-off sale. Insiders are buying plenty, they are repurchasing, TheStreet likes it... I have trouble generating the down argument.

Outatime85 (53.32) Submitted: 9/11/2006 11:16:23 PM : Start Price: $33.84 POOL Score: +0.13

Over the past decade, POOL has been one of the market's top performing stocks -- skyrocketing from a split-adjusted price of around $0.92 when it first began trading a little over ten years ago to a recent close above $38 -- a forty bagger!

So what fundamental factors have triggered this sensational 37% annualized gain?

From a tiny, one-store operation on the outskirts of New Orleans, POOL has been on a prolonged shopping spree, and the company is now the world's largest supplier of wholesale swimming pool supplies, accessories and related products -- with revenues fast approaching $2b per year.

Over the past five years, the company has leveraged an 18% annual top-line increase into EPS growth of nearly 27%.

From a top-down standpoint, POOL has been one of my longtime favorites, and I have been covering the company sporadically for more than two years -- here's one of my early write-ups.
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05021726.htm

With an installed base of nearly 7 million pools needing constant replenishment to stay crystal clear, and another 200,000 homeowners deciding to install a pool every year, the long-term fundamentals underpinning the growth of this wide-moat company are as inviting as ever.

TMFLucky11 (99.28) Submitted: 8/30/2006 4:25:06 PM : Start Price: $40.82 POOL Score: -17.23

I like SCP Pool's business and potential. POOL's also a boring company, which raises its stature in my mind considerably. Can other companies penetrate its chlorinated moat? Certainly. But I don't see much in the way of direct competition right now, and I DO see lots of room for growth before that happens. This is a smallish company that's going somewhere. And I like it.

hermanmc (< 20) Submitted: 8/25/2006 10:39:02 PM : Start Price: $31.59 POOL Score: +7.05

continues to improve

Ganni1 (63.24) Submitted: 8/24/2006 6:47:02 AM : Start Price: $33.36 POOL Score: +1.28

Pool owners know what it takes to keep the pool clean. It's the repurchases that bring in the $$$ for Pool. Just look at the chart.