Pool Corporation vs Toast POS

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Pool Corporation leads in AI visibility (94 vs 85)

Pool Corporation

LeaderConsumer Retail

Enterprise

Covington LA pool supplies wholesale distributor (NASDAQ: POOL) at $5.3B 2024 revenue (-4%); 440+ service centers, 6M+ US pool installed base maintenance, 200,000+ SKUs for pool builders competing with regional distributors.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A94
Category Rank
#9 of 290
AI Consensus
71%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
85
Perplexity
94
Gemini
94

About

Pool Corporation is a Covington, Louisiana-based wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related outdoor living products — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: POOL) as an S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary component — operating as the world's largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool and related outdoor products through a network of 440+ service centers across the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe, serving approximately 125,000 customers including pool builders, retailers, and service companies through approximately 6,400 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Pool Corporation reported annual net sales of $5.3 billion, a 4% decrease from 2023, with diluted EPS of $11.30, operating cash flow of $659.2 million, and an operating margin of 11.6% — reflecting softer discretionary spending in new pool construction while maintenance chemicals, equipment replacement, and repair parts sustained non-discretionary demand. Founded in 1993 through the consolidation of regional pool supply distributors, Pool Corporation (operating under the SCP Pool and Horizon Distributors brand names) built its distribution moat through a hub-and-spoke service center network that delivers products next-morning to pool builders and service companies in virtually every US market. CEO Peter Arvan has led the company's strategy of expanding into outdoor living products (patio furniture, landscaping equipment, irrigation) beyond the core pool supplies business.

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Toast POS

LeaderHospitality

Restaurant POS

Q3 2025 $1.63B revenue (+25.1% YoY); 156K locations powered globally; $2.0B+ ARR (+30% YoY); $159.1B GPV FY2024 (+26% YoY); 97.36% customers from US; restaurant POS leader

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A85
Category Rank
#1 of 4
AI Consensus
79%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
86
Perplexity
83
Gemini
86

About

Toast was founded in 2011 in Boston with the mission of building an all-in-one technology platform purpose-built for the restaurant industry. Unlike generic point-of-sale vendors that adapted retail software for food service, Toast designed its hardware, software, and payments stack from the ground up around restaurant workflows — table management, kitchen display systems, online ordering, payroll, and inventory unified in a single cloud platform.\n\nToast's product suite covers the full restaurant operating stack: POS terminals and handheld order devices, kitchen display screens, Toast Go handhelds for tableside payments, online ordering and delivery integrations, catering management, payroll and scheduling, and xtraCHEF for back-of-house food cost analytics. The platform serves independent restaurants, multi-location chains, quick-service concepts, and enterprise groups. Its open API allows integrations with hundreds of third-party tools, and the Toast for Enterprise tier serves national brands with centralized menu and reporting management.\n\nAs of Q3 2025, Toast reported $1.63 billion in quarterly revenue, up 25.1% year-over-year, with annualized recurring revenue exceeding $2 billion and gross payment volume of $159.1 billion for fiscal 2024. The company serves more than 156,000 restaurant locations globally and trades on the NYSE under the ticker TOST. Toast's vertical focus and deep restaurant-specific functionality give it a durable competitive moat against horizontal POS vendors.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

94
Overall Score
85
#9
Category Rank
#1
71
AI Consensus
79
stable
Trend
stable
85
ChatGPT
86
94
Perplexity
83
94
Gemini
86
91
Claude
81
98
Grok
78

Capabilities & Ecosystem

Capabilities

Only Toast POS
Restaurant POS

Integrations

Only Pool Corporation
Only Toast POS

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