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 announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 21st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 5th will be given a dividend of $1.36 per share on Thursday, December 19th. This represents a $5.44 dividend on an annualized basis 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 declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, February 26th 2019, which permits the company to buyback $15,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 6.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 19th. The home improvement retailer reported $2.53 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $2.53. The home improvement retailer had revenue of $27.22 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 revenue was up 3.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $2.51 earnings per share. 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 will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 25th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Home Depot updated its FY 2020 IntraDay earnings guidance on Thursday, December, 12th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) 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 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Home Depot's shares. Their forecasts range from $208.00 to $269.00. On average, they expect Home Depot's stock price to reach $238.92 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.3% 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, 11 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Home Depot.

Media coverage about HD stock has trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Home Depot earned a news impact score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the home improvement retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Home Depot.

Home Depot saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 10,320,000 shares, an increase of 32.1% from the December 31st total of 7,810,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,490,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.3 days. Approximately 1.0% of the company's stock 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include California Public Employees Retirement System (0.30%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.15%), Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.14%), Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.08%), Strs Ohio (0.05%) and PGGM Investments (0.05%). 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, State of Michigan Retirement System, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Clark Capital Management Group Inc. and Strs Ohio. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Hexavest Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Janney Capital Management LLC, Gradient Investments LLC, First American Bank, DNB Asset Management AS and Selz Capital LLC. 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 $231.19.

Home Depot has a market capitalization of $252.19 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]