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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000945841-25-000123"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POOL"
cik: "0000945841"
company_name: "POOL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-07-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T03:03:05.798956+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pool Corp Q2 EPS $5.17 (+4% YoY), net sales up 1% to $1.8B; updates FY EPS guidance to $10.80-$11.30

## Summary
- Q2 diluted EPS $5.17 vs $4.99 a year ago; net sales $1.8B, up 1%.
- Gross margin held at 30.0%; operating income $272.7M, up $1.2M.
- Six-month EPS $6.57 vs $7.03 (down 7%); net sales $2.86B, down 1%.
- Full-year EPS guidance updated to $10.80-$11.30, including $0.10 ASU tax benefit.
- Inventory $1.3B (+3%); debt $1.2B; $156.4M share repurchases in H1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000945841-25-000123
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POOL
- cik: 0000945841
- company_name: POOL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-07-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584125000123/0000945841-25-000123-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945841/000094584125000123/pool-20250724.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000945841-25-000123
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000945841-25-000123.txt

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