NYSE:HDHome Depot Stock Price, Forecast & News

Home Depot's stock was trading at $212.89 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, HD shares have increased by 19.7% and is now trading at $254.90. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

34 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Home Depot in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings, 22 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Home Depot.

Home Depot is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 18th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Home Depot.

Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 19th. The home improvement retailer reported $2.08 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.27 by $0.19. The home improvement retailer had revenue of $28.26 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $27.59 billion. Home Depot had a negative return on equity of 496.11% and a net margin of 9.79%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 7.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $2.27 earnings per share. View Home Depot's earnings history.

Home Depot announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 19th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 4th will be paid a dividend of $1.50 per share on Thursday, June 18th. This represents a $6.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.35%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, June 3rd. View Home Depot's dividend history.

Home Depot declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Tuesday, February 26th 2019, which permits the company to repurchase $15,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 6.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

34 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Home Depot's stock. Their forecasts range from $215.00 to $270.00. On average, they expect Home Depot's share price to reach $251.72 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.2%. View analysts' price targets for Home Depot.

Media headlines about HD stock have trended negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Home Depot earned a coverage optimism score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the home improvement retailer a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutHome Depot.

Home Depot saw a increase in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 10,340,000 shares, an increase of 6.8% from the April 15th total of 9,680,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 6,720,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days. Approximately 1.0% of the company's shares are short sold. View Home Depot's Current Options Chain.

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Home Depot trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HD."

Home Depot's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.84%), Capital World Investors (3.02%), Wellington Management Group LLP (2.07%), Capital Research Global Investors (1.96%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.58%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.94%). Company insiders that own Home Depot stock include Ann Marie Campbell, Carol B Tome, Craig A Menear, Edward P Decker, Manuel Kadre, Mark C Vadon, Mark Holifield, Matt Carey, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Timothy A Hourigan, Wayne M Hewett and William G Lennie. View institutional ownership trends for Home Depot.

HD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Capital International Investors, Aristotle Capital Management LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, Deutsche Bank AG, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., and PGGM Investments. Company insiders that have sold Home Depot company stock in the last year include Ann Marie Campbell, Carol B Tome, Craig A Menear, Edward P Decker, Matt Carey, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, and William G Lennie. View insider buying and selling activity for Home Depot.

HD stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital Research Global Investors, Advisor Group Holdings Inc., Wellington Management Group LLP, Jennison Associates LLC, Swiss National Bank, Invesco Ltd., APG Asset Management N.V., and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA. Company insiders that have bought Home Depot stock in the last two years include Manuel Kadre, Mark C Vadon, and Wayne M Hewett. View insider buying and selling activity for Home Depot.

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One share of HD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $254.90.

Home Depot has a market capitalization of $274.15 billion and generates $110.23 billion in revenue each year. The home improvement retailer earns $11.24 billion in net income (profit) each year or $10.25 on an earnings per share basis. Home Depot employs 415,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Home Depot is www.homedepot.com.

Home Depot's mailing address is 2455 PACES FERRY ROAD, ATLANTA GA, 30339. The home improvement retailer can be reached via phone at 770-433-8211 or via email at [email protected]