Both in Wholesale Trade

Pool vs Applied Industrial Technologies

Over the past year POOL returned −15.0% and AIT returned +16.3%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.11.

POOL −15.0% AIT +16.3%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricPOOLAIT
Price$219.26$298.29
Market cap$7.83B$10.89B
Today+5.79%−2.25%
1 month+38.6%−13.5%
6 months+16.6%−5.4%
Year to date−4.1%+16.2%
1 year−15.5%+17.7%
Revenue growth (YoY)+3.7%+7.6%
Gross margin29.0%30.4%
Net margin8.2%8.6%
P/E (TTM)19.8×25.7×
Price / sales1.4×2.2×
Net cash-$1.06B-$170.1M
Dividend yield2.37%0.68%
Volatility (60d)43.6%31.5%
Short % of float10.2%2.0%
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Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).