Welcome to our dedicated page for Home Depot news (Ticker: HD), a resource for investors and traders seeking the latest updates and insights on Home Depot stock.
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) is widely described in its public communications as the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, and its news flow reflects the scale and breadth of its operations. Company and partner announcements highlight developments across home improvement retail, digital innovation, professional services and community impact, giving investors and observers insight into how the business evolves over time.
Recent news emphasizes The Home Depot’s focus on AI and digital capabilities. In partnership with Google Cloud, the company has expanded its Magic Apron assistant into a conversational, agentic AI tool that offers project recommendations to homeowners and professional customers, integrates with local store inventory and provides aisle-level wayfinding. Additional stories describe AI-powered materials list tools for pros, AI-driven route intelligence for last-mile delivery and conversational AI across chat, SMS and voice for customer support.
Other updates showcase The Home Depot’s efforts to support professional customers and large projects. The launch of the AI-powered Blueprint Takeoffs tool, for example, is presented as a way to generate faster, more accurate material lists and estimates for single-family project blueprints, allowing pros to source everything they need through the company. Strategic and financial updates, such as quarterly results, guidance and investor conference presentations, offer context on how these initiatives fit into the company’s broader strategy.
News coverage also includes community and philanthropic initiatives through The Home Depot Foundation, including major grant commitments to veteran housing and skilled trades training, as well as marketing and brand-building efforts such as the Home Depot Creator portal for digital content creators. For anyone tracking HD, this news page brings together earnings releases, strategic updates, technology partnerships, pro-focused tools and community investments in one place, making it a useful reference for following how The Home Depot communicates its priorities and progress.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) subsidiary SRS Distribution has agreed to acquire Mingledorff's, a wholesale HVAC distributor with 42 locations in five southeastern states, adding HVAC as a new SRS vertical. HVAC raises The Home Depot's total addressable market by ~$100 billion to $1.2 trillion. Closing is expected in Q2 fiscal 2026, subject to regulatory approvals; funding will be from cash and debt. Management continuity is planned, with Mingledorff's CEO and senior team remaining in place.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is the Official Home Improvement Retailer of the FIFA World Cup 2026 and launched a national campaign with David Beckham on March 19, 2026. Highlights include a $10,000 gift-card sweepstakes plus a trip to the Final, in-store adidas scarf offers with select Makita purchases, a June 6 kids workshop, and Beckham-themed fan festival experiences.
The program outfits 475,000 associates with special-edition aprons and offers immersive "Beckham's Backyard" activations at FIFA Fan Festivals.
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) expanded its Pro digital experience on March 18, 2026 to give Pro Xtra members a single workspace for project management, materials and team collaboration. Key additions include a Material List Builder AI, real-time delivery tracking, complex order scheduling and shared access controls. The platform is free for Pro Xtra members via web and the mobile app and will be highlighted during Pro Xtra Week, March 23–29, 2026, with special offers and demos.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) launches its Spring Starts event from March 19 to April 1, 2026, offering seasonal deals on plants, soils, outdoor power equipment, grills and patio furniture. Savings are available in-store, online at homedepot.com and via the Home Depot mobile app, while supplies last.
New AI tool "Magic Apron" helps customers plan lawns, diagnose plants and visualize yard makeovers on the garden center section of homedepot.com.
The Home Depot Foundation (NYSE: HD) launched a nationwide Path to Pro Education Grants program with an initial $1 million investment on March 10, 2026 to fund tool and equipment upgrades for accredited K-12 schools, community colleges and nonprofits. Grants are up to $10,000 per organization and will be awarded on a rolling basis to modernize skilled trades training spaces across all 50 states.
The program builds on Path to Pro, a $50 million initiative; the Foundation says Path to Pro has introduced ~600,000 people to the trades and certified over 70,000 participants.
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) will launch the industry's first real-time delivery tracker for big and bulky building materials by the end of Q1 2026. The feature, on the mobile app and homedepot.com, shows minute-by-minute GPS tracking, truck route visibility, and remaining stops to help Pro customers plan jobsite work.
The capability is powered by the new The Home Depot Driver Handheld application, which transmits live GPS from delivery trucks to provide up-to-the-minute ETA updates for concrete, drywall, lumber and other large-item deliveries.
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2025 sales of $38.2B (down 3.8% vs. prior year) and fiscal 2025 sales of $164.7B (+3.2% YoY). Fourth-quarter diluted EPS was $2.58 and fiscal EPS was $14.23. The board approved a 1.3% dividend increase to $2.33 per quarter. Fiscal 2026 guidance includes total sales +2.5% to +4.5%, comparable sales flat to +2.0%, ~15 new stores, gross margin ~33.1%, and adjusted diluted EPS growth flat to 4.0%.
At year-end the company operated 2,359 stores, employed over 470,000 associates, and reported total assets of $105.1B and shareholders' equity of $12.8B.
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) will hold its Fourth Quarter & Fiscal Year earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. ET. A live webcast will be available at the company's investor events page and the Chorus Call link, with an archived replay available around noon on February 24.
At the end of the third quarter the company operated 2,356 stores, over 1,200 SRS locations, and employed more than 470,000 associates. The Home Depot is included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) on Jan 26, 2026 launched Material List Builder AI, a free capability for Pro Xtra members inside its Project Planning tool that rapidly generates grouped, phase‑organized project material lists from voice, text, pasted documents or starter templates.
The tool produces editable draft lists, shows product recommendations with preferred pricing and inventory, and enables ordering and saved lists for repeat jobs to help professional renovators and trades save time.
The Home Depot Foundation (NYSE:HD) and Morning Consult released research on Jan 20, 2026, finding skilled labor shortages are a major barrier to post-disaster rebuilding.
Key survey findings: ~60% of Americans lack high confidence in community rebuild speed, 40% of the construction workforce is projected to retire by 2031, 36% of adults were disaster-affected in the last five years, and 52% of those rebuilding said recovery took longer than expected. The study found 60% of contractors on disaster projects reported hiring skilled labor challenges.
The Foundation will expand its Path to Pro program nationally in 2026 and continues grants, scholarships and a $1M workforce pilot with Team Rubicon.