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Pool Corporation

POOL pitch short 2nd ($50k)
Columbia Business School · Pershing Square Challenge

No thesis text was extracted for this pitch.

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failed confidence: high

The pitch was a short, but the stock rose +45.2% over the 26 months since the pitch — a large move directly against the short direction that would have produced substantial losses. The thesis text is empty, so no specific catalysts can be evaluated, but the directional call itself was decisively wrong. With more than two years elapsed and a strongly adverse return, this is a clear failure rather than interim noise.