Home Depot Inc

NYSE: HD
$391.96
+$2.10 (+0.5%)
Closing Price on September 23, 2024

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Investors love dividends, particularly from companies which are raising dividends or which have a history of raising dividends.  There is a new diversified sample dividend portfolio for investors...
The Dow Jones industrial average, the best-known barometer of the U.S. stock market, has been on a tear recently, gaining more than 16% over the past year. Investors have not yet recovered the losses...
It may seem like corporate earnings season is just about over, but next week we have a flurry of reports with some tech and a monster amount of retail companies.  We have compiled earnings previews...
The unemployment rate rose so fast in 2008 and 2009 that in some months the US lost more than 500,000 jobs. That trend has only begun to reverse itself this year, and the progress is slow. Last...
Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) may not have a great housing market to boost its shares, but the company has decided to take an unusual approach to returning capital to shareholders.  The home...
“If gasoline tops $4.00 per gallon in the coming weeks, consumers may be forced to make significant changes to their spending habits. At this stage of the recovery, that could be an extremely...
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) both reported earnings this morning.  Both also gave two very different reads on the economy and the implications may be in place...
The National Retail Federation predicts that retail sales will rise 4% this year. The forecast does not include sales at gas stations, car dealers or restaurants. Stronger-than-expected retail...
The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) might not be getting a pop in the stock from this, but the company plans to add some 60,000 seasonal employees for its second annual “Spring Black Friday” event....
Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on December 31, 2010 and the changes were extreme due to a unit portfolio manager...
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) Removed from Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy...
It’s already 2011 and we have our outlook pieces for the year for sectors and indexes.  While most of our pieces are examining upside going into what is expected to be a solid 2011, we also have...
Share repurchase programs, or stock buybacks, have been and may always be a more questionable method of returning capital to shareholders than dividends.  Many even disagree with the effect of...
There is a long-standing debate over the effect and impact of share buyback plans. What is not up for debate is that many companies have given big updates or announced new buyback plans in the month...