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The Week That Was: Home Depot And Lowe’s
While the two largest home improvement retailers in the U.S. have been encouraged by growth trends in the housing sector lately, recent news of massive data breach and security threats cast a shadow over future customer transactions. Home Depot (...
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Home Depot Earnings Review: Rough Weather In Q1 Gives Way To Higher Comparable Sales In Q2
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) reported strong sales and operating performance in the second quarter ended July, which saw its stock jump roughly 5% just after the announcement on August 19. Net sales of $23.8 billion in Q2, up 5.7% year-over-year, beat co...
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Robust Spring Sales Expected For Home Depot As U.S. Economy Recovers
America’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is scheduled to announce Q2 results on August 19. As the U.S. economy recovered in the second quarter, improved consumer spending should boost the retailer’s sales. Whi...
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Home Improvement Sales Could Rise Following The Slight Slowdown In Q1
After the housing market in the U.S. witnessed strong last couple of years, existing and new home sales relatively declined this year. Sales of existing homes in particular, which form around 90% of overall house sales, were the most hit in the f...
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Unfavorable Weather Conditions And Slow Housing Activity Stall Top Line Growth For Home Depot
America’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) announced its Q1 results on May 20. Revenues grew 2.9% year-over-year to $19.69 billion but missed analysts’ estimates of $19.95 billion. Comparable sales growth of 2.6...
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Home Depot Earnings Preview: Low Housing Activity Could Slow Sales This Quarter
American home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is scheduled to announce its Q1 results on May 20. Earlier in the year, the unusually cold months of January and February slowed down growth in the housing industry, which had a strong last ...
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Harsh U.S. Winter Dampens Home Depot’s Revenues, Strong Spring Sales Expected
Home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) released its Q4 results on February 25. Earnings for the quarter stood at $1,013 million compared to $1,021 million in Q4 2012, a slight drop of 0.8%. Net earnings were impacted by an unusually hars...
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Harsh U.S. Winter May Dampen Home Depot’s Fourth Quarter Sales
Home Depot (NYSE:HD), the nation’s largest home improvement retailer, is scheduled to release its Q4 earnings results on February 25. Compared to the previous quarters in 2013, the performance of the housing market was a bit disappointing i...
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Home Depot Plans To Offer Same-Day Delivery To Customers
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) has announced that it is planning to put in place infrastructure that will enable the same-day delivery of orders. The new systems will also allow the company to boost its online sales in general and perhaps capture a chunk o...
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Home Depot Reports Strong Results On Housing Recovery, Raises Outlook
Home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) released its Q3 results on November 19. Earnings for the quarter stood at $1.4 billion compared to $947 million in Q3 2012, an increase of nearly 43%. Net earnings were propelled by top line growth ...
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Gold Prices Still Dependant On The US Dollar
Submitted by SK Options Trading as part of our contributors program . Gold Prices Still Dependant On The US Dollar Background We will begin by taking a look at some of the factors that usually drive investors into the arms of safe haven...
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Home Depot Expands Referral Service Redbeacon’s Footprint
Home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is fast-tracking the national roll-out of its online services referral business, Redbeacon. This service seeks to connect consumers to service providers like carpenters, maids, plumbers and painters...
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3 Homebuilding Value Stock Picks: Pullback Presents Profit Opportunity
Submitted by Turnaround Letter as part of our contributors program . I’ve mentioned several times over the past couple of years that I thought the homebuilding stocks were getting ahead of themselves as investors anticipated a rebound in ...
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Home Depot Reports Strong Results On Housing Recovery, Raises Outlook
Home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) released its Q2 results on August 20. Earnings for the quarter stood at $1.8 billion compared to $1.5 billion million in Q2 2012, an increase of nearly 22.8%. Net earnings were propelled by top line...
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Home Depot Reports Solid Numbers But Stock Sells Off – A Warning Sign for the Market?
Submitted by BehindWallStreet as part of our contributors program . For new investors, here’s a basic trading idea that you should begin to understand – if there’s good news on a company and it goes down, watch out. One of th...
