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Home Depot Inc. (HD) is in the Retail Industry
- Revenue
- Feb 03 2008
- $77.3B
- Profit
- Feb 03 2008
- $4.3B
- Market Cap
- Jul 17 2008
- $39.6B
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Investing in Dividend Paying Companies
Devin Hobbes submits: Suppose 20 years ago, in the middle of the Savings and Loan Crisis, you decided to invest in a basket of dividend paying companies to hold for the long term. Not wanting to do too much research but still interested in buying quality companies, you decided to...
Dow 30 Earnings Reports
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: While much of the news surrounding earnings reports focuses on how much a company earns, the real test of how good or bad the report is depends on how the stock reacts. For those interested, below we highlight the percentage of up days...
Dow 30 Price Targets - Too Much Optimism?
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. For each one, we include its price, year-to-date change, consensus analyst price target, and the current distance from that price target. The average stock in the Dow has a...
Grasso Case "over" as Court Dismisses Claims
By Bill Berkrot and Martha Graybow NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Stock Exchange chief Richard Grasso won a knockout victory on Tuesday in his four-year fight to keep every last penny of his $187.5 million pay package, as an appeals court...
Options Trader: Tuesday Outlook
Phil Davis submits: Oil is at $142.50. As I said yesterday, what do you expect to happen when a tank of gas costs $70? We were hoping for some relief but we are not getting it. Every sell-off on the NYMEX, like the one yesterday that dropped oil...
Lowe's Cos Looks to Gain Market Share From Rivals
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Home improvement retailer Lowe's Cos Inc LOW is looking to take market share in the U.S. housing slump, mainly from independent stores but also from bigger rivals such as Sears Holdings SHLD, its chief financial officer said on...
Goldman Cuts Financials, Admits Goofed on Upgrade
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs & Co strategists urged stock investors on Monday to "underweight" U.S. financial and consumer shares, admitting it was wrong when it upgraded both sectors just seven weeks ago. The downgrades sparked selling in the two sectors as ...
Earnings Volatility for the Dow 30
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Earlier today we posted on the most volatile stocks on earnings reports out of the 2,700 stocks in the Bespoke Interactive Earnings Report Database. Below we highlight the same information for the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The...
Top 10 Payout Yield Stocks
Mebane Faber submits: I'm not much of a ranter, but it doesn't make any sense to me to continue to focus on dividends when there has clearly been a structural change in the market (that happened way back in 1982). (For newer readers there is background reading with lots...
Hyperinflation, Here We Come
Andy So submits: I started writing on the subject of hyperinflation almost 4 years ago. One definition of hyperinflation, offered by Wikipedia, is ?a cumulative inflation rate over three years approaching 100%?. Investopedia defines hyperinflation as ?Extremely rapid or out of control inflation.? Anyone who was expecting a recession...
Saut: We're in the Middle of a 'W' Market; Scale Into Positions
Excerpt from Raymond James strategist Jeffrey Saut's latest essay: Excerpt from Raymond James strategist Jeffrey Saut's latest essay: ...[L]ast week marked a major change in the “body language” of the Federal Reserve. Our sense is that the Fed is now going to jawbone the U.S. dollar higher, and attempt...
Eddie Lampert's ESL Holdings
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an article highlighting that Eddie Lampert has recently placed bets on a housing recovery. Some of the housing-related names that Mr. Lampert's hedge fund ESL Investments held at the end of the first quarter included CIT Group, PHH...
America Spends Rebate Checks ... at Home Depot
Tim Iacono submits: That rebate money is starting to show up at retailers in a big way. The Department of Commerce reported retail sales rose 1.0 percent from April to May with a giant 2.4 percent increase in spending at building material and garden supply stores.There were also some...
Are High-Profile CEOs Effective?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: The only thing more difficult than achieving success for startups is predicting who will be successful. So much of it comes from decisions people make, and that usually starts at the top with the CEO. Naturally, the traits that make for a good CEO at...
Home Depot F1Q08 (Qtr End 4/29/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Home Depot F1Q08 (Qtr End 4/29/07) Earnings Call Transcript
What Roger Adams Brings to Lord and Taylor
Industry insiders are voicing surprise that Lord & Taylor, the nation's oldest department store, would turn to Roger Adams, ex-Chief Marketing Officer of The Home Depot, as its first CMO. Adams joined Home Depot in 2005 as VP of marketing, and became CMO a year later. He has also worked...
The Home Depot, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 02/03/08) Earnings Call Transcript
The Home Depot, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 02/03/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Home Depot F3Q07 (Qtr End 10/28/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Home Depot F3Q07 (Qtr End 10/28/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Another New Face at Chrysler
Another New Face at ChryslerNardelli from Home Depot to Chrysler hmm..You know, I am recalling Jim Kramer's remarks about Nardelli at Home Depot Kramer calls it Home Despot and my personal experience shopping at Home Depot and how the stores look like trash (look more like Builder's Square did then...
The Home Depot Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
The Home Depot Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
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- Incorporated: 1978
- CEO: Mr. Francis S. Blake
The Home Depot is a home improvement retailer that provides an array of building materials, home improvement and lawn and garden products and related services. Co. also operates EXPO Design Center (EXPO) stores, which provides products and services related to design and renovation projects. As of Feb 3 2008, Co. operated a total of 2,234 stores, which included 1,950 The Home Depot stores, 34 EXPO stores, five Yardbirds stores and two The Home Depot Design Center stores in the U.S., which include the territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam, as well as 165 The Home Depot stores in Canada, 66 The Home Depot stores in Mexico and 12 The Home Depot stores in China.
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Home Depot Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Francis S. Blake
Chairman
Ms. Karen L. Katen
Dr. Bonnie G. Hill
Lead Director
Mr. F. Duane Ackerman
Mr. David H. Batchelder
Mr. Ari Bousbib
Mr. Gregory D. Brenneman
Mr. Albert P. Carey
Mr. Armando Codina
Mr. Brian C. Cornell
Contact Information
2455 Paces Ferry Road N.W.
Atlanta, GA
770 433-8211
NAICS Code
Home Centers: 444110Brought to you by IBMSponsored Resources
