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 yield of 2.30%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 4th. View Home Depot's Dividend History.

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

Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 25th. The home improvement retailer reported $2.28 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.11 by $0.17. The home improvement retailer earned $25.78 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $25.78 billion. Home Depot had a net margin of 10.01% and a negative return on equity of 721.00%. Home Depot's revenue was down 2.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $2.25 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 FY21 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 25th. The company provided EPS guidance of ~$10.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $10.55. The company issued revenue guidance of +3.5-4.0% yr/yr to $114.1-114.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $114.91 billion.

31 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for Home Depot's stock. Their forecasts range from $208.00 to $269.00. On average, they anticipate Home Depot's share price to reach $240.31 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Home Depot.

31 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 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Home Depot.

Headlines about HD stock have been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Home Depot earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the home improvement retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Home Depot.

Home Depot saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 9,470,000 shares, a decrease of 8.2% from the January 15th total of 10,320,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,810,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Currently, 0.9% of the company's shares 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 State Street Corp (4.78%), Capital World Investors (3.61%), FMR LLC (1.81%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.54%), Capital Research Global Investors (1.50%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.89%). 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 Capital World Investors, FMR LLC, Fred Alger Management LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, 1832 Asset Management L.P., PGGM Investments, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Artemis Investment Management LLP. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, Hexavest Inc., Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. 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 $236.87.

Home Depot has a market capitalization of $258.38 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]