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Quote this valuation with its source: Fair value, Potential value and the price at analysis.
FAQ
HD — frequently asked questions
Is The Home Depot, Inc. overvalued?
In our latest published analysis dated 2026-09-08, HD looks meaningfully overvalued. The price recorded at analysis is USD ۳۲۱ versus our fair value of USD ۲۱۶; the high endpoint is presented separately as potential value of USD ۳۰۷. That implies roughly 32.8% downside to fair value at that date.
Our latest published report, analyzed 2026-09-08, gives HD a fair value of USD ۲۱۶ and a potential value of USD ۳۰۷. The conclusion is triangulated across multiple valuation models and weighted by reliability for The Home Depot, Inc.'s archetype; it is a dated research output, not a live price.
Should I buy HD now?
Our latest published rating for HD, analyzed 2026-09-08, is Sell. The Home Depot, Inc. looks meaningfully overvalued at the analysis-date price of USD ۳۲۱ versus fair value of USD ۲۱۶; potential value is USD ۳۰۷. This is research for educational purposes, not personalized investment advice.
What are the biggest risks for HD?
The dedicated bear-case section in our report analyzed 2026-09-08 documents The Home Depot, Inc.'s material risks, evidence, thresholds, and thesis-invalidation conditions. Scenario-specific explanations remain in that section so the report does not repeat or decontextualize them elsewhere.
What is HD's rating?
Our latest published rating for HD, analyzed 2026-09-08, is Sell, with a published moat assessment of 1/10 (None). It reflects our fair value of USD ۲۱۶, the potential value of USD ۳۰۷, and the price recorded at analysis (USD ۳۲۱).
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§1 خلاصه اجراییEN
پاسخ ۳۰ ثانیهایSell
قیمت در برابر ارزش
Price
$321.05
Fair value
$215.78
Potential value
$306.96
As of
2026-09-04
چرا این سناریو میتواند موفق باشد
If demand returns faster than expected, earnings per share could reach the upper end of the estimate range for the year ending 2028-01-31 while cash generation stays strong.
چه چیزی دیدگاه ما را تغییر میدهد
Sales growth in the main store business falls below two percent for two consecutive fiscal years.
The rating is Sell. The report-date price sits above our estimate of what Home Depot is worth.
Sell means we would reduce a holding rather than add to one. The report-date price is above our Fair value, so a buyer today pays more than the business appears to be worth.
The main risk is that sales in the largest business slow. That line supplied $151.97 billion of the $164.68 billion of total sales in the year ended 2026-02-01. Store and staffing costs do not fall as fast, so profit would drop faster than sales.7
The clearest reason it could work: the business turns reported profit into cash. Operating cash was $16.33 billion against $14.16 billion of profit in the year ended 2026-02-01, funding the dividend and store investment.6
Cycle upside
Demand improves modestly. Analyst sales estimates for the year ending 2028-01-31 point to growth, with a mid estimate of $177.49 billion. That is an expectation, not a result already achieved.
Sell: the report-date price exceeds our estimate of the company's worth.
توصیه داخلی
Sell: the report-date price exceeds our estimate of the company's worth.
نمای کلی شرکت
The Home Depot, Inc. offers its associates the opportunity to benefit from robust development opportunities. Its Home Depot University, or “HDU,” program, is a key part of this development, offering relevant content through multiple platforms, including instructor-led classes, e-learning, mobile learning, and additional online resources.
The Home Depot, Inc. also provides a number of services, including home improvement installation services, and tool and equipment rental. The Home Depot, Inc. currently conducts these operations in the U.S. (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the territories of the U.S.
§2 سناریوی نزولیEN
The primary business transmits the weakness because smaller segments offer limited offset. Positive FY2025 free cash flow cushions funding pressure but does not prevent lower earnings and value.
Sales growth in the main store business stays below two percent for two consecutive fiscal years7
Operating profit per sales dollar falls below ten cents6
Home projects stay deferred and sales growth in the main store business falls under two percent. Fixed costs then take a larger share of each sales dollar, so profit falls faster than sales. Two consecutive weak fiscal years would confirm this path.
Home Depot earns solid profits and turns reported profit into cash. Those are results, not protection. Available public information does not show a structural advantage that keeps rivals out, such as high switching costs, a distribution edge, or a scale advantage rivals cannot copy.
The nearest home-improvement retailer trades at a lower price per dollar of expected earnings than Home Depot. That gap means investors currently pay more for Home Depot's earnings. Other companies in the comparison sell coffee, food and apparel, so they test valuation only, not competitive strength.
سود اقتصادی
Free cash flow was positive in the fiscal year ended 2026-02-01. That shows cash resilience. It does not show returns above what investors require.5
1/ 10
None
تهدیدات شناختهشده برای خندق
تهدید
شدت
بازه زمانی
کاهش
The closest home-improvement rival competes for the same customer trips and pricing room
medium
Two consecutive fiscal years of faster rival growth would confirm it
Track relative sales growth and Home Depot's operating profit margin together, not the rival's share price1
Apply a terminal P/E to the dated forward path, then discount that future share value back to the analysis date.
§5 حساسیت
نرخ تنزیل
رشد نهایی
1.5%
2.0%
2.5%
3.0%
3.5%
6.8%
$247.60
$258.68
$272.16
$288.93
$310.38
7.8%
$222.39
$229.90
$238.74
$249.29
$262.13
8.8%
$203.24
$208.60
$215.78
$221.93
$230.35
9.8%
$188.07
$192.05
$196.54
$201.66
$207.54
10.8%
$175.66
$178.71
$182.10
$185.90
$190.19
ردیفها: نرخ تنزیل (Ke برای سود؛ WACC برای جریان نقدی). ستونها: رشد نهایی.
تغییر مدت (سال)
None of the valuation methods used to calculate Fair value relies on a separate assumption about how long the competitive advantage lasts.
مرجع حساسیت
The highlighted cell is Fair value when every assumption sits at its base level ($215.78). Each row and column shows what Fair value becomes when one assumption moves.
Free cash flow to the firm stays positive in the first projected year at $15.9B after modeled capex of $3.6B, with terminal value at 55.0% of enterprise value. A sudden drop in free cash flow is not projected unless capital spending relative to revenue, reinvestment, or gross margin resets materially.
Sales reach roughly the mid analyst estimate for the year ending 2028-01-311
Cash generation stays near the level reported for the year ended 2026-02-016
Sales recover at a low-single-digit rate through the year ending 2028-01-31, consistent with the annual revenue estimate. Even with that recovery, the report-date market valuation remains above the $215.78 fair-value midpoint.1
Earnings per share reach the high end of the estimate range for the year ending 2028-01-311
§7 درخت تصمیم سودEN
بیش از انتظار
Do not add; trim more slowly pending confirmation.
محرک: Sales growth improves versus the forecast path while operating profit per sales dollar holds.1
The report-date price remains above fair value, so one strong result would improve confidence in the recovery but would not by itself remove the valuation concern.
مطابق
Continue the planned reduction.
محرک: Sales and operating profit per sales dollar track the annual path.6
Expected delivery would preserve a modest recovery without extending visibility beyond FY2028.
کمتر از انتظار
Accelerate the reduction.
محرک: Primary-business sales weaken and less operating cash supports reported profit.6
Weak primary-business sales or poorer cash backing would show that earnings power is falling rather than merely delayed.
کیفیت سود
FY2025 operating cash exceeded reported profit, although one period does not establish durable cash growth.6
معیارهای مهم پیش از انتشار
01
معیار:
Annual sales growth
فعلیFY2025 sales provide the reported baseline.
چرا مهم است
Slower growth would increase pressure from fixed store costs and reduce profit.6
02
معیار:
Primary business growth
فعلیThe primary business supplied most sales in FY2025.
چرا مهم است
Weakness in the dominant business would flow directly into consolidated sales and profit.7
In the year ended 2026-02-01 the business produced $16.33 billion of operating cash, spent $3.68 billion on stores and equipment, and kept $12.65 billion.5,6
تخصیص سرمایه
Dividends of $9.15 billion took most of that free cash in the same year. Debt stood at $63.19 billion on 2026-09-08, so paying down borrowings competes directly with the dividend.
Available public information does not establish a multi-year trend in returns on the money invested in the business. Operating profit was $20.89 billion in the year ended 2026-02-01.
No comparison of returns earned against the return investors require is supported here, so no conclusion is drawn.
Cash generation was strong in the last reported year
Operating cash flow was $16.33 billion against reported profit of $14.16 billion for the year ended 2026-02-01
Profit arrived as real cash that year, which supports the dividend.
The Home Depot Inc. (HD) trades at 21.2x forward earnings against a peer median of 20.6x. Its EV/EBITDA of 15.5x compares with a peer median of 16.5x. The comparison uses 4 peers: Lowe's Companies Inc., Starbucks Corporation, McDonald's Corporation and The TJX Companies Inc., as of 2026-09-08.
§10 صنعت و چرخهEN
فاز چرخه
Expansion
Industry capital spending runs near six percent of sales, with spending slightly above the rate assets wear out.
چرخه صعودی
Demand improves modestly. Analyst sales estimates for the year ending 2028-01-31 point to growth, with a mid estimate of $177.49 billion. That is an expectation, not a result already achieved.
چرخه نزولی
Home projects are easy to delay. If customers postpone them, sales in the main store business slow, and that business supplied $151.97 billion of the $164.68 billion total in the year ended 2026-02-01.
روندهای بلندمدت
روند
تأثیر
یادداشت
Sales concentrated in one large business
negative
With most sales in one line, there is little to cushion a slow year.
Reliable cash generation
positive
The business turned reported profit into cash in the year ended 2026-02-01.
موقعیتیابی
Home Depot's scale is real, but growth depends on one large business recovering. At today's size, the smaller businesses would need very rapid growth to offset a sustained shortfall there.7
§11 مدیریت موقعیتEN
اندازه موقعیت
No new position; reduce any existing holding. The Sell rating requires lower exposure while the accepted valuation remains below the report-date price.4
ریسک
Reduce in stages and accelerate when an operating threshold breaks. Substantial debt increases the financial effect of weaker cash generation.
بخشهای ورود
سطح
اقدام
چرا
No entry while reduction remains required
Do not open or enlarge the position.
Adding exposure would conflict with the Sell rating.
بخشهای خروج
سطح
اقدام
Planned reduction
Trim now rather than waiting for a price trigger.
Confirmed operating weakness
Exit if annual revenue growth falls below 2% in FY2027 or FY2028.
Complete the exit because the expected recovery would have failed.
Cash backing of profit
Full-year operating cash under 0.8 times reported profit
Exit fully because dividends and investment would have weaker internal funding.
§12 دیدگاههای سرمایهگذارانEN
Income investor
Hold
The dividend was covered by free cash in the year ended 2026-02-01, but $9.15 billion of payouts took most of the $12.65 billion generated.5
Long-term owner
Avoid
No structural advantage was established, and the report-date price sits above our estimate of value.
Value investor
Avoid
Shares cost more per dollar of expected earnings than the nearest home-improvement rival, without proven faster growth.3
§14 توصیه نهاییEN
اقدام
فروش
The rating is Sell because the report-date price is above our estimate of what the business is worth.
Home Depot generates real cash and pays a covered dividend. But growth is modest, concentrated in one large business, and no lasting competitive barrier was established. That combination does not support the report-date market valuation.
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۰ نویسه
Sources
The records this analysis drew on, as they stood when it was run.
Not every cited input appears here: internal calculations and intermediate model outputs have no external record, and some citations could not be matched to one.
Forward P/E falls below 17x before earnings accelerate, reducing the price investors pay for expected profit.3
FV impact
-5.9%
Terminal multiple 20% lower
Trigger
Within 12 months
Profit stops converting into cash
Full-year operating cash falls below 0.8 times reported profit, weakening support for dividends and reinvestment.
FV impact
-6.3%
The analyst's bear scenario path and multiple as the base case
Trigger
Within 18 months
Required investor returns rise
The moderate cost of equity exceeds 11.78%, reducing the present value of future cash while debt remains substantial.2,4
FV impact
-15.2%
Cost of capital 2 points higher
Trigger
Within 12 months
Primary business growth
Because the primary business dominates sales, sustained weakness would flow into consolidated revenue while smaller segments provide only limited offset.
وضعیت فعلی:Primary revenue was $151.97 billion for the period ended 2026-02-01.
هشدار در صورتBelow 2% for two consecutive fiscal years
Lower profit per sales dollar would turn weak demand into sustained earnings pressure and leave less internally generated cash for dividends and investment.
Limitation: Terminal value is 71.4% of this model's value, above the 60% level at which the methodology flags concentration; the value leans on the years beyond the explicit forecast.
Demand returns faster, earnings per share reach the upper end of the estimate range for the year ending 2028-01-31, and investors continue to award the same earnings multiple. Meaningful upside requires stronger earnings and sustained valuation support at the same time.1
03
معیار:
Profit per sales dollar
فعلیFY2025 operating profit is the reported baseline.
چرا مهم است
A thinner margin would reduce earnings and the cash available for dividends.6
04
معیار:
Cash backing of profit
فعلیOperating cash exceeded reported profit in FY2025.
چرا مهم است
Poorer cash backing would increase reliance on borrowing for dividends and investment.6
05
معیار:
Growth versus the closest peer
فعلیThe closest operating peer has a lower forward earnings valuation.
چرا مهم است
Peer outgrowth alongside weaker margins could cause investors to pay less for Home Depot earnings.1