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What Should You know About Home Depot (HD) Before Investing?

Home Depot logged a -0.4% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $298.04 per share. On average, analysts give it a target price of $343.35.

The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer. The large-cap company is based in the United States. Home Depot currently returns an annual dividend yield of 2.7%.

What to Consider if You Are Thinking of Buying Home Depot:

  • Home Depot has moved 8.0% over the last year.

  • HD has a forward P/E ratio of 18.4 based on its EPS guidance of 16.19.

  • Over the last 6 years, earnings per share (EPS) have been growing at a compounded average rate of 14.8%.

  • The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 17.87.

  • Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 223.42

Home Depot Has Irregular Cash Flows

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023-03-15 14,615,000 -3,119,000 17,734,000 -7.33
2022-03-23 16,571,000 -2,566,000 19,137,000 -10.16
2021-03-24 18,839,000 -2,463,000 21,302,000 30.17
2020-03-25 13,687,000 -2,678,000 16,365,000 4.86
2019-03-28 13,165,000 -2,442,000 15,607,000 12.43
2018-01-31 12,031,000 -1,850,000 13,881,000

Home Depot's free cash flows have a decent average of $17.34 Billion over the last 6 years, but they are highly variable since their coefficient of variability is 52968335731.9%. The compounded average growth rate over this period is 0.0%.

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