summer swimming season is over—but taking care of a pool lasts forever that makes it a good time to jump into pool stock shares of the covington la–based pool ticker pool soared in 2021 as homeowners bored from covid19 lockdowns and flush with cash thanks to rising home prices and government stimulus payments rushed to put swimming pools into their homes about 117000 pools were installed in the us in 2021 up 50 from prepandemic 2019 but pool stock has fallen 39 in 2022 more than the 32 drop in the ishares us home construction exchangetraded fund itb let alone the sp 500 165 decline as it gets punished for the reversal of those tailwinds