NYSE:HD - Home Depot Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Home Depot declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 21st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 5th will be paid a dividend of $1.36 per share on Thursday, December 19th. This represents a $5.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.35%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 4th. View Home Depot's Dividend History.

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

Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 19th. The home improvement retailer reported $2.53 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $2.53. The home improvement retailer had revenue of $27.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $27.51 billion. Home Depot had a net margin of 10.01% and a negative return on equity of 721.00%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $2.51 EPS. View Home Depot's Earnings History.

Home Depot is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 25th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Home Depot.

Home Depot issued an update on its FY 2020 IntraDay earnings guidance on Thursday, December, 12th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $114-114.5 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $114.95 billion.

30 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Home Depot's stock. Their forecasts range from $200.00 to $269.00. On average, they expect Home Depot's share price to reach $237.52 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Home Depot.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Home Depot in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 12 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Home Depot.

Press coverage about HD stock has trended positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public 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 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the home improvement retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Home Depot.

Home Depot saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 10,320,000 shares, an increase of 32.1% from the December 15th total of 7,810,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,480,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Home Depot's Current Options Chain.

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Home Depot's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.14%), Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.08%), PGGM Investments (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.04%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%). Company insiders that own Home Depot stock include Ann Marie Campbell, Armando M Codina, Carol B Tome, Craig A Menear, Edward P Decker, Gregory D Brenneman, Manuel Kadre, Mark C Vadon, Mark Holifield, Matt Carey, Stephanie Linnartz, 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 PGGM Investments, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Baxter Bros Inc.. 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, Mark Holifield, Matt Carey, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Timothy A Hourigan and William G Lennie. View Insider Buying and Selling for Home Depot.

HD stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Hexavest Inc., Gradient Investments LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, Selz Capital LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Centre Asset Management LLC and Hoey Investments Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Home Depot stock in the last two years include Armando M Codina, Gregory D Brenneman, Manuel Kadre, Mark C Vadon, Stephanie Linnartz and Wayne M Hewett. View Insider Buying and Selling for Home Depot.

Shares of HD can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of HD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $231.91.

Home Depot has a market capitalization of $252.97 billion and generates $108.20 billion in revenue each year. The home improvement retailer earns $11.12 billion in net income (profit) each year or $9.89 on an earnings per share basis. Home Depot employs 413,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Home Depot.

The official website for Home Depot is http://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]