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The Home Depot, Inc. reports developments tied to its home improvement retail business, Pro contractor strategy and specialty trade distribution platform. The company operates warehouse-format stores and digital channels for building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, decor, installation services, and tool and equipment rentals across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Recurring news for HD includes quarterly earnings calls, investor presentations, dividend and guidance updates, technology leadership, marketing partnerships, and acquisitions that expand Pro-facing distribution. The SRS Distribution subsidiary adds coverage in roofing, building products, interior and construction products, landscape, pool and HVAC distribution, extending Home Depot's role beyond retail stores into trade-focused supply channels.
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.
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.