
Pentair plc dropped Wednesday after the company reported pool-channel destocking had reduced its second-quarter sales by about $170 million and Pool segment income by $105 million. The company said that’s a decremental margin of 61.8%, so about 62 cents of profit vanished for every lost dollar of sales.
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