Pool Corporation, Inc., is the world's largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies and equipment. It is a publicly traded corporation which trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol POOL. It sells these products to swimming pool repair and service businesses, swimming pool builders, and retail swimming pool stores. The majority of these customers are small, family-owned businesses.

Required:

Using the SEC EDGAR service at www.sec.gov, download the current annual report for pool.

Compute the following ratios:

Return on assets

Profit margin

Current ratio

Inventory ratio

Cash coverage ratio

Debt-to-equity ratio

Price/earnings ratio (Hint: You will need to go to another source to get the current market price per share)