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Home Depot (The) stock overview: financials, insider activity, and peer context

Home Depot sells building materials, home improvement products, tools, and professional contractor services tied to housing, renovation, and big-ticket demand. This page connects filing evidence with ownership, insider activity, forecasts, ETFs, and peer context so each dataset can be checked against the others.

Deterministic, source-linked commentary

What the latest evidence says about HD

The newest reported numbers give HD a clearer starting point. 10-Q covers CY2026Q1. quarterly revenue was $41.8B; year-over-year growth was 4.8%; operating margin was 11.9%; trailing free cash flow was $16.9B. Read together, these figures test whether scale is translating into profit and cash. Verify periods and company footnotes in the original SEC EDGAR filing.

The useful next step is to test HD from another angle. Use institutional ownership, insider filings, earnings analysis alongside the filing. Company facts can update before 13F positions, so align every source date and report period before treating a difference as a change in fundamentals.

Business model

Company snapshot

Home Depot sells building materials, home improvement products, tools, and professional contractor services tied to housing, renovation, and big-ticket demand. The latest standardized snapshot records $168.25B of trailing revenue, $14.87B of net income, and $16.88B of free cash flow. These figures describe the reported company, while valuation and price require a separate market-data timestamp.

Operating lines

building materials

A named product, service, or operating exposure identified in the company description.

home improvement products

A named product, service, or operating exposure identified in the company description.

tools

A named product, service, or operating exposure identified in the company description.

and professional contractor services tied to housing

A named product, service, or operating exposure identified in the company description.

renovation

A named product, service, or operating exposure identified in the company description.

and big-ticket demand

A named product, service, or operating exposure identified in the company description.

Geographic revenue mix

The current standardized filing dataset does not extract a comparable geographic revenue table for every issuer. Review the latest 10-K segment note for domestic and international mix, concentration, foreign-exchange sensitivity, and country-specific regulation.

10-Q · 2026-05-27

What the latest filing shows

Form: 10-Q Period: CY2026Q1 Filed: 2026-05-27 CIK: 0000354950

Revenue for the latest standardized quarter was $41.77B, while diluted EPS was 3.3. Revenue changed 4.8% from the comparable period. Gross margin was 33% and operating margin was 11.9%. Margin direction matters because it shows whether growth is translating into operating leverage or requiring more cost to support.

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Earnings & filings

HD earnings calls, releases, and filing evidence

Earnings calls

No authorized call transcript summary is available yet for this ticker.

Filings & announcements

Earnings history

DatePeriodStatusRevenueEPSSource
2026-05-20Q1 2026ReportedN/A$3.43Home Depot Q1 2026 results

CY2026Q1

Earnings analysis

PeriodRevenueNet incomeEPSOperating margin
CY2026Q1$41.77B$3.29B3.311.9%
TTM$168.25B$14.87B14.9513.1%
CY2025$164.68B$14.16BSee filing12.7%

Home Depot's Q1 2026 report should be read as a stock-outlook reset, not just a beat-or-miss event. The key facts are Q1 sales reflected a still-choppy home-improvement cycle, big-ticket demand and housing turnover remained the key swing factors, EPS and operating margin showed how well Home Depot is managing weaker renovation demand, and management's full-year outlook remained tied to rates, housing activity, and project demand. Bottom line: the report improves the setup only if those numbers support whether Home Depot is close to a home-improvement trough or still waiting for lower rates and better housing turnover.

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Consumer Discretionary

Peer comparison

CompanyTTM revenueRevenue growthOperating marginTracked holders
HDHome Depot (The)$168.25B4.8%13.1%0
GMGeneral Motors$166.34B-1.3%5.7%0
FFord Motor Company$184.63B6.4%2.6%0
TGTTarget Corporation$99.77B6.7%4.9%0
TSLATesla, Inc.$92.31B15.8%4.2%3
LOWLowe's$88.78B10.3%12.4%0
NKENike, Inc.$46.7B0.1%N/A0

HD's 4.8% revenue growth and 13.1% operating margin should be read against peers using the same reporting definitions. A higher margin may reflect pricing power or business mix, while a lower margin can reflect investment, cyclicality, or weaker economics.

Fund ownership

ETF exposure

HD appears among the disclosed top holdings of 2 tracked ETFs shown below. ETF weights change with price movement, rebalancing, creations, redemptions, and issuer methodology.

ETFHD weightAUMHoldings date
XLYState Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF5.07%$22.60BMay 18, 2026
FDISFidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF4.50%$1.72BMay 19, 2026

10-K · 2026-03-18

Key risk factors disclosed in the latest 10-K

The categories below are a deterministic research checklist anchored to Home Depot (The)'s industry and latest annual filing. They summarize areas investors should locate in Item 1A; they do not replace the company's exact legal disclosure.

  • Demand and product-cycle risk: Home improvement retail can experience changing customer demand, replacement cycles, and competitive product launches that affect revenue timing.
  • Competition and execution: Market share depends on product quality, pricing, distribution, innovation, and management's ability to convert investment into durable customer demand.
  • Supply chain and counterparties: Supplier concentration, logistics disruption, component availability, and customer concentration can affect delivery schedules, costs, and working capital.
  • Regulation and litigation: Antitrust, privacy, securities, labor, tax, environmental, and industry-specific rules may change costs or restrict products and business practices.
  • Financial and market risk: Foreign exchange, interest rates, credit conditions, investment values, and capital-allocation decisions can affect reported earnings and valuation.
Review the original 10-K risk disclosures

Shareholder returns

Dividend and buyback history

Dividend

Home Depot (The) reported $9.12B of dividends paid over the trailing period and $2.32B in the latest standardized quarter. These are company cash outflows, not a per-share forward yield.

Share buybacks

The standardized snapshot does not currently expose a reliable repurchase authorization and share-count bridge for every issuer. Compare diluted shares outstanding across filings and read the capital-return note before concluding that buybacks reduced the share base.

Research workflow

Common research questions about HD

Who is the largest tracked institutional holder of HD?

The current tracked-manager sample does not identify an active HD holder. The HD ownership page will reflect a matching position when one enters the filing dataset.

What does recent insider activity show for HD?

No recent Form 4 transaction appears in the current HD window. Check the HD Form 4 history for later company-officer or director filings.

What business does Home Depot (The) operate?

Home Depot sells building materials, home improvement products, tools, and professional contractor services tied to housing, renovation, and big-ticket demand. The HD company snapshot connects that business description with reported revenue, profit, and cash flow.

How does HD compare with a close operating peer?

HD's revenue growth is 4.8% and its operating margin is 13.1%. Compare those figures with GM research using the same definitions.

What do the latest financials say about HD?

10-Q reports $168.3B of trailing revenue, with revenue growth of 4.8% and an operating margin of 13.1%. The supporting period and source are listed in the HD filing section.

How strong is HD's cash return profile?

Home Depot (The) reported $9.1B of trailing dividends paid alongside $16.9B of free cash flow. The HD capital-return section separates company cash outflows from a forward per-share yield.

Which reported changes matter most for the HD outlook?

Without a dedicated forecast, the key HD evidence is the direction of revenue, margin, cash flow, and company guidance. The HD earnings section keeps those reported changes together.

Primary and reference data

Sources and methodology

  • Filings: SEC EDGAR CompanyFacts, 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Form 4, 13F-HR.
  • Fundamentals: SEC EDGAR CompanyFacts; market references may use yfinance and Finnhub where explicitly available.
  • ETF: Issuer disclosures and the locally dated ETF holdings snapshot.

Methodology: How SnowballHare parses and validates data.
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Disclaimer: Informational only; not investment, legal, or tax advice. Cross-check material facts against original filings before acting.

Reference notes

Data notes

Reporting dates

Use filing dates, report periods, and source links together for HD. A company filing, a 13F disclosure, a Form 4 transaction, and an earnings release can describe different time windows, so the date beside each row matters before comparing signals.

Ownership context

13F rows are delayed public long-equity snapshots from a selected manager universe. They are useful for seeing which tracked institutions reported exposure, but they do not show every hedge, short position, cash balance, or trade made after the quarter ended.

Insider transactions

Form 4 activity should be read by transaction type, role, value, and remaining ownership. Open-market purchases and sales are different from grants, option exercises, gifts, or tax withholding, and the original SEC filing is still the controlling document.

Earnings and forecasts

Earnings pages and forecast pages are linked when a supported article exists. Treat those pages as context for reported numbers, guidance, margins, and scenario assumptions, then return to the table data when you need the underlying source date or filing trail.