12 Best Industrial Distribution Stocks to Buy According to Hedge Funds

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8. Pool Corporation (NASDAQ:POOL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 32

Pool Corporation (NASDAQ:POOL) is a wholesale distributor of swimming pool equipment, parts and supplies, and related outdoor living products. The company operates approximately 440 sales centers in North America, Europe, and Australia and distributes over 200,000 products from more than 2,200 vendors to 125,000 wholesale customers.

Pool Corporation has the privilege of being one of the leaders in the highly fragmented swimming pool industry and serves as the largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products worldwide. The leader has demonstrated a solid history of market share expansion and organic growth. It is worth mentioning that POOL has driven compound average annual shareholders’ return of more than 29% since its IPO in October 1995.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway took stakes in Pool Corporation (NASDAQ:POOL) in the third quarter, adding a 404,000-share stake, worth $152 million to its portfolio.

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