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Home Depot (HD) Competitors

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$392.60 +7.58 (+1.97%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:45 PM ET)

HD vs. LOW, BLDR, FND, JCTC, WMT, COST, MCD, BABA, BKNG, and TJX

Should you be buying Home Depot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Depot include Lowe's Companies (LOW), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Floor & Decor (FND), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTC), Walmart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST), McDonald's (MCD), Alibaba Group (BABA), Booking (BKNG), and TJX Companies (TJX). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.

Home Depot vs.

Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.

Home Depot has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lowe's Companies has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Home Depot has higher revenue and earnings than Lowe's Companies. Lowe's Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Depot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Home Depot$154.60B2.52$15.14B$14.7226.67
Lowe's Companies$83.72B1.67$7.73B$11.9920.66

In the previous week, Home Depot had 2 more articles in the media than Lowe's Companies. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Home Depot and 16 mentions for Lowe's Companies. Home Depot's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Lowe's Companies' score of 0.54 indicating that Home Depot is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Home Depot
10 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Lowe's Companies
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Home Depot currently has a consensus price target of $426.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.51%. Lowe's Companies has a consensus price target of $280.85, indicating a potential upside of 13.37%. Given Lowe's Companies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lowe's Companies is more favorable than Home Depot.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Home Depot
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
23 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.73
Lowe's Companies
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.62

Home Depot pays an annual dividend of $9.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Lowe's Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Home Depot pays out 61.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lowe's Companies pays out 38.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Home Depot has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Home Depot is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Home Depot received 311 more outperform votes than Lowe's Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.42% of users gave Home Depot an outperform vote while only 69.52% of users gave Lowe's Companies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Home DepotOutperform Votes
1812
71.42%
Underperform Votes
725
28.58%
Lowe's CompaniesOutperform Votes
1501
69.52%
Underperform Votes
658
30.48%

70.9% of Home Depot shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Home Depot shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Lowe's Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Home Depot has a net margin of 9.45% compared to Lowe's Companies' net margin of 8.19%. Home Depot's return on equity of 452.60% beat Lowe's Companies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Home Depot9.45% 452.60% 16.91%
Lowe's Companies 8.19%-47.55%15.28%

Summary

Home Depot beats Lowe's Companies on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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HD vs. The Competition

MetricHome DepotLumber & other building materials IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$389.99B$80.41B$24.60B$19.18B
Dividend Yield2.20%1.84%165.84%3.58%
P/E Ratio26.6720.17108.7941.22
Price / Sales2.521.263.7617.58
Price / Cash22.7115.6321.7421.28
Price / Book67.4619.425.425.32
Net Income$15.14B$3.54B$675.22M$989.67M
7 Day Performance-5.85%-4.11%-2.92%-3.45%
1 Month Performance-4.29%-6.36%0.23%-3.73%
1 Year Performance12.50%-0.18%8.77%12.06%

Home Depot Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HD
Home Depot
4.5046 of 5 stars
$392.60
+2.0%
$426.00
+8.5%
+12.6%$389.99B$154.60B26.67509,300Positive News
High Trading Volume
LOW
Lowe's Companies
4.4135 of 5 stars
$262.69
+0.1%
$280.85
+6.9%
+11.6%$148.33B$83.72B21.88284,000
BLDR
Builders FirstSource
4.8632 of 5 stars
$163.17
-2.0%
$210.00
+28.7%
-6.9%$18.78B$16.73B16.2529,000Analyst Forecast
FND
Floor & Decor
3.6608 of 5 stars
$108.39
-1.9%
$104.37
-3.7%
-8.8%$11.62B$4.41B61.3712,783Short Interest ↓
Positive News
JCTC
Jewett-Cameron Trading
N/A$4.68
-0.2%
N/AN/A$16.40M$47.15M22.33N/APositive News
WMT
Walmart
4.6115 of 5 stars
$95.34
+1.2%
$93.33
-2.1%
+80.0%$765.90B$648.13B38.792,100,000Analyst Forecast
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.4445 of 5 stars
$1,004.55
+1.5%
$988.46
-1.6%
+44.3%$445.09B$254.45B58.49333,000Analyst Forecast
MCD
McDonald's
4.122 of 5 stars
$301.08
+1.5%
$320.50
+6.5%
+1.3%$215.76B$25.94B26.04150,000
BABA
Alibaba Group
4.8757 of 5 stars
$86.46
-1.5%
$114.07
+31.9%
+12.2%$206.62B$130.35B17.52204,891Gap Down
BKNG
Booking
4.5776 of 5 stars
$5,172.09
-1.1%
$4,866.03
-5.9%
+45.5%$171.18B$23.05B35.4723,600Analyst Forecast
TJX
TJX Companies
4.3698 of 5 stars
$124.47
-0.3%
$130.89
+5.2%
+35.5%$139.92B$54.22B29.38349,000

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This page (NYSE:HD) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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