POOL

POOL CORP

Industrials Misc Durable Goods Market cap: $6.1B All insider activity → Quote and statistics → Sign in to watch POOL Sign in to set a price alert

AI summary Cluster open-market purchases by multiple Pool Corp directors following Q1 results and leadership transition

Insider Score Band 60–79

Research score: 60
AI adjustment: +9

Research score, not a recommendation.

Total bought$4.0M5 Form 4 purchases

Distinct insiders4open-market buyers

Lead insiderPEREZ DE LA MESA MANUEL JDirector

Cluster window2026-05-07 → 2026-05-13active

Market data

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Why this score

Research score: a weighted blend of the five factors, times the routine and offering discounts, minus the selling penalty.

Breadth number & diversity of participating insiders

63%

Seniority executive rank of buyers (CEO/CFO/Director)

60%

Commitment purchase size relative to company & holdings

56%

Context buying into stock weakness signals conviction

89%

Timing coordinated purchases within a tight window

99%

Routine-purchase discount × 1.00

Company-type / offering discount × 1.00

Net insider selling penalty − 3

Why are they buying?

AI · discretionary · catalyst credible · documented

Directors likely timed their open-market purchases following the company's Q1 2026 earnings release, dividend increase, share repurchase authorization, and recent leadership transition announcements in late April and early May 2026.

Multiple independent directors and board members acquired shares through open-market transactions between May 7 and May 13, 2026, totaling over $3.9 million in open-market buys.

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Stock Price & Insider Purchase History

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Transactions

5 Form 4 trades · 4 insiders Sign in to download CSV

Purchases in this cluster, grouped by insider, largest first
Date	Insider	Role	Shares	Price	Value	Filing
2026-05-07 → 2026-05-13	PEREZ DE LA MESA MANUEL J 4 purchases with a 63-day result · median -7.7%	Director	20,000	$182.97 avg	$3.7M
2026-05-07	PEREZ DE LA MESA MANUEL J		10,000	$190.00	$1.9M	SEC filing for PEREZ DE LA MESA MANUEL J (opens in a new tab)
2026-05-13	PEREZ DE LA MESA MANUEL J		10,000	$175.95	$1.8M	SEC filing for PEREZ DE LA MESA MANUEL J (opens in a new tab)
2026-05-07	STOKELY JOHN E history of STOKELY JOHN E's purchases	Director	1,000	$193.07	$193.1K	SEC filing for STOKELY JOHN E (opens in a new tab)
2026-05-08	WHALEN DAVID G history of WHALEN DAVID G's purchases	Director	525	$190.44	$100.0K	SEC filing for WHALEN DAVID G (opens in a new tab)
2026-05-07	Hope James D history of Hope James D's purchases	Director	464	$194.42	$90.2K	SEC filing for Hope James D (opens in a new tab)
Total					$4.0M

Other buying runs at POOL

A run ends after a pause in the buying, so one company can have several. Returns are the stock's return minus its benchmark's (IWM for small companies, SPY otherwise), from the first open after the run became a cluster. Past results, not a forecast.

After this run became a cluster: 21 days +3.0%63 days +2.8%126 days –

Other insider buying runs at this company, newest first, with the return against the benchmark that followed
Window	Insiders	Total	Score	21 days	63 days	126 days	Status
2026-02-23 → 2026-03-13	3	$3.6M	60	-3.4%	-27.0%	-28.7%	closed