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) 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.
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) will adopt Rilla's AI-powered real-time coaching platform to support service and sales professionals nationwide, announced Jan 13, 2026. The tools analyze communication and service-delivery patterns to surface coaching insights, aiming to standardize customer experience and scale frontline development across the retailer's network.
The partnership highlights both firms' focus on operational consistency and technology-driven performance for millions of customers.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Google Cloud expanded their strategic partnership on Jan 11, 2026 to deliver agentic AI tools that move customers from advice to action. Key launches include an upgraded Magic Apron assistant with conversational, multimodal and in‑store aisle‑level wayfinding (testing in select stores, nationwide rollout planned), AI‑powered pro materials lists (beta Nov 2025, scaling nationally in Jan 2026), route intelligence for last‑mile deliveries, conversational CX across SMS/chat/voice, and Gemini Enterprise deployed to thousands of Store Support Center associates to automate workflows.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) launched the Home Depot Creator portal on December 10, 2025, a creator-first hub to connect digital content creators with The Home Depot, its suppliers and product catalogs.
The portal offers onboarding, training, shoppable links with commissions, storefronts, product gifting, performance tracking, branded hashtags and curated collections. Thousands of creators are already enrolled and public applications are open. The program debuts a "Starting Lineup" roster (including Dude Perfect and Trinity Rodman) timed ahead of the world's largest soccer event to drive seasonal, sports-themed home improvement content and commerce.
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) held its 2025 Investor and Analyst Conference on Dec. 9, 2025 and reaffirmed fiscal 2025 guidance while providing a preliminary fiscal 2026 outlook and a Market Recovery Case.
FY2025 guidance: total sales growth ~3%, GMS adds ~$2B, ~12 net new stores, gross margin ~33.2%, operating margin ~12.6% (adjusted ~13.0%), diluted EPS down ~6% to $14.02, adjusted EPS down ~5%, net interest ~$2.3B, capex ~2.5% of sales.
FY2026 outlook: market -1% to +1%, comp sales flat to +2%, total sales +2.5%–4.5%, operating margin 12.4%–12.6%, adjusted EPS flat to +4%. Market Recovery Case: sales +5%–6%, comps +4%–5%, mid‑to‑high‑single‑digit EPS growth.
Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) and The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) announced a nationwide partnership in Canada on Dec. 2, 2025 to offer same-day delivery from over 175 stores via the Instacart app with in-store pricing.
The launch includes Instacart's Big & Bulky fulfillment for items up to 60 pounds, joins over 100 retail banners on the platform, and features a limited-time promotion of $20 off $80 (offer ends Dec. 8, 2025).
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) will hold its 2025 Investor and Analyst Conference on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. ET. A live webcast will be available at the company investor site and an archived replay will be posted approximately two hours after the event concludes.
The company reported operating 2,356 retail stores and over 1,200 SRS locations across all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico, and employs over 470,000 associates. Home Depot is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under HD and is included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500.
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $2.30 per share, payable on December 18, 2025 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 4, 2025. This marks the company's 155th consecutive quarter of paying a cash dividend.
The company operates 2,356 retail stores and over 1,200 SRS locations across all 50 states, U.S. territories, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico, and employs over 470,000 associates.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD) launched Blueprint Takeoffs, an AI-powered tool for professional renovators, remodelers and builders to generate complete material lists and project quotes for single-family blueprints within days instead of weeks. The solution integrates The Home Depot's Pro team support and enables Pros to purchase all required materials from a single supplier, with order management and delivery options.
The tool complements existing Pro services including trade credit, project planning, account management, and same-day or scheduled delivery to streamline planning and procurement for single-family projects.
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