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Home Depot’s Earnings Will Gain As The Housing Recovery Continues
Home Depot (NYSE:HD), the nation’s largest home improvement retailer, is scheduled to release its Q2 earnings results on August 20. The company is expected to continue to benefit from the housing market recovery and improved consumer sentim...
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Housing Market’s On Fire; Why It’s Not Time to Buy
Submitted by Emma Davis of Investment Contrarians as part of our contributors program . By George Leong The housing market continues to vault ahead. We are seeing strong housing starts and the flow of building permits in the pipeline. Home pri...
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Home Depot Gets More Constructive On Housing Recovery
Home improvement retailer Home Depot (NYSE:HD) released its Q1 results on May 21. Earnings for the quarter stood at $1.2 billion compared to $1 billion million in Q1 2012, an increase of nearly 18.5%. Net earnings were propelled by top-line grow...
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Home Depot Results Expected To Benefit From Housing Recovery And Hurricane Sandy
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is scheduled to release its Q1 earnings results on May 21. The company is expected to continue benefiting from a housing market recovery as well as continued reconstruction activity after Hurricane Sandy. The positive sentime...
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These Undervalued Stocks Could Lead The Dow 30 Higher
The Dow Jones Industrial (DJI) Average closed at 14,253 Tuesday, surpassing its previous all time high of 14,164 in October 2007. The index jumped nearly 126 points or 0.9% during the day powered by China’s strong economic growth targets, a...
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77 Stocks Raised Dividend Payments Last Week – A Full List Of The Best Growth Picks
Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . 77! That’s the number of stocks and funds which raised dividends last week. It’s the highest amount this year and the highest for several months. Dividend growth is...
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Home Depot Outpaces Lowe’s As Housing Recovery Boosts Sales
Home improvement retailer Home Depot’s (NYSE:HD) excellent run of results over the first three quarters of 2012 has been capped off with another strong performance in the final quarter. Earnings for Q4 2012 crossed the $1 billion mark comp...
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50 Stocks With The Strongest Recent Dividend Growth
Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . Shares with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment . Dividend growth is wonderful. It helps you to grow your own wealth and build up a...
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Housing Uptick To Boost Home Depot’s Q4 Sales
Home improvement retailer Home Depot’s (NYSE:HD) performance over 2012 has inspired a lot of confidence in investors. The company’s stock rose by over 40% during the year as the management posted strong and consistent sales growth ove...
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Why Home Depot And Lowe’s Sales Will Heat Up In 2013
After years of reeling under the housing downturn, North America’s largest home improvement retailers Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) are hoping that this year’s spring will finally bring a long awaited bloom in retai...
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More Jobs Heralds A Good Start To 2013 For Home Depot And Lowe’s
In our previous article on the two home improvement retail giants Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW), we explained how high levels of unemployment in the U.S. have dragged on the companies’ earnings results since 2009 and how ...
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Higher Lumber Prices Are Good News For Lowe’s And Home Depot
After nearly four years of uncertainty, the housing market in the United States is finally recovering, albeit slowly. Housing starts (new home constructions initiated) for 2012 are estimated at around 894,000, the highest levels seen since 2008, ...
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Key Factors Behind Home Depot’s $59 Valuation
Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer in the US. The company operates a chain of retail stores that stock items related to home improvement and development such as building materials, electrical appliances and hardware tools. The co...
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Austerity And Fewer Home Buyers Could Hurt Home Depot’s Outlook
Home Depot’s (NYSE:HD) third quarter results announced in October this year was met with widespread cheer from investors. The company posted revenues of $18.3 billion for the quarter, beating Wall Street estimates by about $400 million and ...
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Can Mexico Deliver Growth For Lowe’s and Home Depot?
What’s the perfect recipe for a housing boom? Most would agree that it’s a strong economy, cheap lending rates, and a growing, property-hungry middle-class. And that is precisely what spells ‘big bucks’ for Lowe’s (N...
