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Low riskNext report: Around Nov 17 (est.)
The short versionA profitable company with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- High return on equity: 146%
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 3% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (1837 bought, 1932 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$319.37-0.1% that day
- Company value
- $318.6B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 22.3x
- You pay about $22 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.9x
- Company value is 1.9 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 2.9%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 1%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 16%
- Debt as a share of company value
From HD's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Aug '26$47.9B+5.7% vs a year earlier
Oct '23Tap a barAug '26
Last 12 months: $169.2B, up 2.5% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 4.5% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- PassReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.145.6%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.3.86x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.8.6%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$16.3B
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-2.9% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.33.3%
- Revenue
- $164.7B
- +3.2% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +4.5%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $49.4B
- 3.86x equity
- Current ratio
- 1.06x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Aug 2, 2026- Revenue
- $47.9B
- +5.7% YoY
- EPS
- $4.79
- vs $4.58
- Op. margin
- 14.3%
- -0.2 pts
- Gross margin
- 33.7%
- +0.3 pts
- Free cash flow
- $4.5B
- Share count
- +0.2%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
0/ 100
- This week
- 0
- Normal week
- 1.6
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+3.0%Institutions added 3.0% to their holdings. 1837 bought, 1932 sold.
Shares held by institutions750.1M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-0.1%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
2.6x · $44.0B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
998MNext reportAround Nov 17 (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 18
- Results filedMay 19
- Results filedFeb 24
- Results filedNov 18, 2025
- Results filedAug 19, 2025
Flags and big holders
Offerings 6 months, flags 12 months, holders 90 days
No offerings, red flags or new big holders. Clean record.
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.