US Equities Analysis

HD — Home Depot (The)

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 11.93%
Profit Margins 8.41%
Return on Equity 128.38%
Return on Assets 12.52%
Free Float 1.0B
Dividend Yield 2.67%
Short Int % Utilisation 1.34%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 4.8%
Free Cash Flow 10.13B
EBITDA 15.24 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 380.13B
EV/Revenue 2.28
EV/EBITDA 15.24

Revenue growth of 4.8% suggests mature or challenged top-line momentum.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* -10.14%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 25.50%
1-Year Price Return* -12.90%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $338.86
52-Week Range $289.10 – $426.75
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $337.88
Market capitalisation $336.91B
Enterprise value proxy $400.87B
Revenue $164.68B
EBIT $21.01B
EBITDA $25.14B
Reported free cash flow $12.65B
Unlevered free cash flow $13.77B
FCF yield 3.75%
EV / EBITDA proxy 15.95x
Net debt / EBITDA 2.54x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.96
Cost of equity 10.00%
Pre-tax cost of debt 3.78%
WACC 8.84%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 4/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:39:46.951857 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2026-01-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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