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

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

Home Depot declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 16th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 30th will be paid a dividend of $1.03 per share on Thursday, September 13th. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.11%. View Home Depot's Dividend History.

Home Depot declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Wednesday, December 6th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $15,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 14th. The home improvement retailer reported $3.05 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.84 by $0.21. The home improvement retailer earned $30.46 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $30.04 billion. Home Depot had a net margin of 8.85% and a return on equity of 399.15%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 8.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.59 earnings per share. View Home Depot's Earnings History.

Home Depot is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November, 13th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Home Depot.

Home Depot updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, August, 14th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $9.42 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $9.46. The company issued revenue guidance of +7% YoY to $108.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $107.90 billion.

27 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Home Depot's stock. Their forecasts range from $170.00 to $227.00. On average, they expect Home Depot's share price to reach $204.0380 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Home Depot.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Home Depot in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 21 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Home Depot.

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News articles about HD stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. Accern scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Home Depot earned a news and rumor sentiment score of 0.01 on Accern's scale. They also gave media coverage about the home improvement retailer an impact score of 48.56 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Home Depot.

Home Depot's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.13%), FMR LLC (2.51%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.05%), Morgan Stanley (0.84%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.63%) and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.55%). 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, Jeffery H Boyd, Mark C Vadon, Mark Holifield, Matt Carey, Stephanie Linnartz, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Timothy M Crow, 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 Renaissance Technologies LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Winslow Capital Management LLC, Winslow Capital Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Jennison Associates LLC, Boston Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Company insiders that have sold Home Depot company stock in the last year include Ann Marie Campbell, Craig A Menear, Edward P Decker, Mark Holifield, Matt Carey and Teresa Wynn Roseborough. View Insider Buying and Selling for Home Depot.

HD stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Senator Investment Group LP, Morgan Stanley, Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC, Fred Alger Management Inc., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Envestnet Asset Management Inc. and Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Home Depot stock in the last two years include Armando M Codina, Gregory D Brenneman, Jeffery H Boyd, 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of HD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $195.56.

Home Depot has a market capitalization of $226.44 billion and generates $100.90 billion in revenue each year. The home improvement retailer earns $8.63 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.46 on an earnings per share basis. Home Depot employs 413,000 workers across the globe.

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]