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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000945841-23-000080"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POOL"
cik: "0000945841"
company_name: "POOL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T23:53:49.272714+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pool Corp boosts buyback to $600M, raises quarterly dividend 10% to $1.10

## Summary
- Board authorized additional $413.6M for share repurchases, bringing total authorization to $600M.
- Quarterly cash dividend increased to $1.10 per share from $1.00, a 10% hike.
- Dividend payable May 31, 2023 to holders of record May 17, 2023; 39.0M shares outstanding.
- Stockholders elected all nine director nominees and ratified Ernst & Young as auditor for 2023.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved; board set future say-on-pay votes every year.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000945841-23-000080
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POOL
- cik: 0000945841
- company_name: POOL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000080/0000945841-23-000080-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000080/pool-20230504.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  POOL CORP shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-05-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-03
  source text: Stockholders ratified the retention of Ernst & Young LLP, certified public accountants, as the independent registered public accounting firm of the company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000080/0000945841-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  POOL CORP shareholders approved Advisory vote on frequency of future say-on-pay votes at the 2023-05-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-03
  source text: Stockholders approved, on an advisory and non-binding basis, holding the future say-on-pay votes every year (the frequency vote).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000080/0000945841-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  POOL CORP shareholders approved Election of nine directors to serve a one-year term at the 2023-05-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-03
  source text: Stockholders elected nine directors to serve a one-year term or until their successors are elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000080/0000945841-23-000080-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  POOL CORP shareholders approved Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation at the 2023-05-03 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-03
  source text: Stockholders approved, on an advisory and non-binding basis, the compensation of the company's named executive officers (the say-on-pay vote).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584123000080/0000945841-23-000080-index.htm

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