HD · NYSE · Retail
The Home Depot, Inc. is one of the world’s largest home improvement retailers, serving homeowners, professional contractors, builders, tradespeople, and maintenance customers.
Current price
$294.73
▲ +$0.81 (0.28%) today
ET&A View
Last reviewed 17 September 2026
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
Home Depot remains one of the highest-quality retail franchises in the United States, supported by unmatched scale in home improvement, strong supplier relationships, a trusted consumer brand and an increasingly powerful…
Business Health
Is the business financially healthy?
Mixed
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Overall
Revenue
$169.2bn · ↑ +3% last year
Earnings
$14.2bn · ↓ −4% last year
Margins
Keeps 13% of sales as operating profit
Cash generation
$12.6bn spare cash a year · 7% of sales
Balance sheet
Debt ≈ 2.5 years of earnings
Dividend
3.2% yield · Pays out 65% of earnings · covered 1.5×
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Home Depot remains one of the highest-quality retail franchises in the United States, supported by unmatched scale in home improvement, strong supplier relationships, a trusted consumer brand and an increasingly…
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Reported annual results, newest first · Market data. “Growth” is the change in sales on the year before.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Operating margin | Net income | EPS | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | $164.7bn | +3.2% | 12.7% | $14.2bn | $14.23 | $12.6bn |
| FY2025 | $159.5bn | +4.5% | 13.5% | $14.8bn | $14.91 | $16.3bn |
| FY2024 | $152.7bn | −3.0% | 14.2% | $15.1bn | $15.11 | $17.9bn |
| FY2023 | $157.4bn | — | 15.3% | $17.1bn | $16.69 | $11.5bn |
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ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
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The Home Depot, Inc. is one of the world’s largest home improvement retailers, serving homeowners, professional contractors, builders, tradespeople, and maintenance customers. The company sells a broad range of products across building materials, tools, hardware, appliances, paint, flooring, plumbing, electrical, garden, décor, installation services, and other home improvement categories through its store network and digital channels.
Home Depot’s strength comes from its scale, brand recognition, supplier relationships, store footprint, professional customer base, and deep position in the repair, renovation, and housing improvement market. Its business benefits from household maintenance, remodelling activity, construction demand, ageing housing stock, and professional contractor spending. This gives Home Depot a strong position within U.S. retail, with exposure to both consumer home improvement and the larger professional building and renovation market.
Retail · USA
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As of 14 October 2026
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| EV/EBITDA | Members | |
| Price/Sales | Members | |
| FCF Yield | Members |
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Read the full ET&A methodology →The ET&A View combines our assessment of the business with where today’s price sits against our Preferred Entry and Fair Value. It is a considered judgement, not a mechanical score.
ET&A Score: ET&A's overall assessment of business quality, valuation, growth and risk, out of 10. It weighs business quality, financial strength, growth, valuation, risk, future prospects.
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Thin margins · Stretched · Weak
Context — not part of the score
Valuation and share-price swings describe the shares, not the company, so they are judged in the ET&A Score and View instead.
Based on the factors that could be measured (45% of the model).
Each area is scored from 0 to 10 on ET&A’s methodology scales — the same ones our research uses — then given a word: Excellent from 8.5, Strong from 7, Good from 5.5, Average from 4.5, Below Average from 3, Weak below 3. The overall answer is the average of the areas we could rate (at least three); the dividend isn’t part of it.
| Area | Based on | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue |
Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 4.5 / 10 | Average |
| Earnings |
Rated on 3-year average earnings growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 2.0 / 10 | Weak |
| Margins |
The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak). | 5.4 / 10 | Average |
| Cash generation |
Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale. | 6.7 / 10 | Good |
| Balance sheet |
Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale. | 5.9 / 10 | Good |
| Dividend |
Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating. | 6.2 / 10 | Good |
| Overall | Average of the 5 rated areas | 4.9 / 10 | Average |
Where each band starts on the scales above. They are fixed and identical for every company we cover; they come straight from ET&A’s methodology, so a company is judged the same way here as in our research.
| Measure | Excellent | Strong | Good | Average | Below Average | Weak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrowthStructural Growth (Fundamental Conviction) | 18%+ | 10%+ | 5.0%+ | 1.7%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Operating marginCompetitive Position (Fundamental Conviction) | 29%+ | 20%+ | 13%+ | 7.5%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Net marginEarnings Durability (Fundamental Conviction) | 23%+ | 15%+ | 9.8%+ | 6.0%+ | 0%+ | below 0% (loss) |
| Free-cash-flow marginCapital Allocation (Fundamental Conviction) | 15%+ | 8.5%+ | 3.8%+ | 1.3%+ | −2.5%+ | below −2.5% |
| Net debt ÷ EBITDAStructural Risk (Fundamental Conviction) | net cash | ≤ 1.5× | ≤ 2.8× | ≤ 3.6× | ≤ 5.0× | above 5.0× |
| Return on equity (banks & insurers)Bank and insurer quality | 16%+ | 12%+ | 9.0%+ | 6.7%+ | 2.7%+ | below 2.7% |
| Equity ÷ assetsBank capital | 7.5%+ | 6.0%+ | 4.7%+ | 4.0%+ | any | — |
| Dividend yieldIncome factor (ET&A Quant Score) | 5.8%+ | 4.0%+ | 2.5%+ | 1.8%+ | 1.0%+ | below 1.0% |
Band floors: Excellent 8.5 · Strong 7 · Good 5.5 · Average 4.5 · Below Average 3 (scores out of 10). Utilities and property companies’ structural debt is scored 6.5, as in ET&A’s risk model.
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