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Home Depot: Will The Impact Of The Data Breach Be Significant?
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) holds the dominant position in the U.S. home improvement industry, accounting for approximately 60% of all revenues. With 1,977 stores across the U.S., Home Depot has been a one-stop shop for many consumers looking to buy hom...
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Impact Of A V-Shaped Recovery In Oil Prices On The Home Improvement Names
A rather talked about topic recently has been the dynamics in oil, the price of which witnessed a steady decline over the past year. A host of reasons that altered market forces has contributed to this development. While weak economic activity an...
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Home Depot Earnings Review: Solid Growth On Positive Economic Prospects
America’s largest home improvement retailer, Home Depot (NYSE:HD), reported solid Q4 and fiscal 2014 results on February 25, backed by an improving U.S. economy and housing market. Sales for the retailer grew 8.3% on a year-on-year basis in...
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Home Depot Earnings Preview: Better Macroeconomic Conditions To Aid Sales
America’s largest home improvement retailer, Home Depot (NYSE:HD), is scheduled to announce its fiscal fourth quarter and 2015 financial results on February 24. In the past year, the stock price climbed almost 44% to register a 52-week hig...
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Home Depot: Four Factors To Watch Out For In 2015
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) holds the dominant position in the U.S. home improvement industry, accounting for approximately 60% of all revenues. Since the recession, Home Depot has grown continuously, with the stock price registering a 40% increase in t...
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Key Trends In Housing Impacting The Home Improvement Market
The U.S. home improvement industry is highly concentrated with Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) accounting for 58% and 39% of total revenues respectively. The industry tends to be highly cyclical, since trends in the home improvement in...
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Monthly Reviews On The Home Improvement Sector: Home Depot And Lowe’s
As both Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) reported their third quarter results last month, we discuss the home improvement market. As expected, following weak consumer demand in the early part of the year due to an unusually cold ...
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Home Depot Earnings Review: Solid Growth On High Demand, Despite The Data Breach
America’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) reported solid Q3 results on November 18, buoyed by improving macroeconomic conditions, home price appreciation and greater consumer demand. Revenues grew 5.4% year-on-year t...
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Home Depot Earnings Preview: Could Data Breach Overshadow Q3 Results?
America’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is scheduled to announce its third quarter results on November 18. After relatively tepid growth in the first quarter, hurt by unusually cold weather conditions and slow busi...
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Home Depot: Could The Impact Of The Data Breach Be Significant?
Falling unemployment rates, rising builders’ confidence and increasing number of housing starts- all bode well for the U.S. housing industry in the near term. In turn, this trend should benefit the largest home improvement retailer, Home D...
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The Week That Was: Home Depot And Lowe’s
While the two largest home improvement retailers in the U.S. have been encouraged by growth trends in the housing sector lately, recent news of massive data breach and security threats cast a shadow over future customer transactions. Home Depot (...
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Home Depot Earnings Review: Rough Weather In Q1 Gives Way To Higher Comparable Sales In Q2
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) reported strong sales and operating performance in the second quarter ended July, which saw its stock jump roughly 5% just after the announcement on August 19. Net sales of $23.8 billion in Q2, up 5.7% year-over-year, beat co...
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Robust Spring Sales Expected For Home Depot As U.S. Economy Recovers
America’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is scheduled to announce Q2 results on August 19. As the U.S. economy recovered in the second quarter, improved consumer spending should boost the retailer’s sales. Whi...
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Home Improvement Sales Could Rise Following The Slight Slowdown In Q1
After the housing market in the U.S. witnessed strong last couple of years, existing and new home sales relatively declined this year. Sales of existing homes in particular, which form around 90% of overall house sales, were the most hit in the f...
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Unfavorable Weather Conditions And Slow Housing Activity Stall Top Line Growth For Home Depot
America’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) announced its Q1 results on May 20. Revenues grew 2.9% year-over-year to $19.69 billion but missed analysts’ estimates of $19.95 billion. Comparable sales growth of 2.6...
