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The Home Depot Inc (HD) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — The Home Depot Inc

HD in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Home Depot runs home improvement stores across the United States and abroad, selling building materials, tools, lawn and garden goods and décor alongside installation services for flooring, windows, cabinets and heating and cooling systems. It also rents equipment and supplies maintenance and repair products to professional trades. Customers range from do-it-yourself homeowners to contractors, electricians, plumbers and property managers, who shop in stores or through its websites and apps. It is headquartered in Atlanta.
Where it sits in the stack
Home Depot holds no seat in Rubin or Halo, Closelook's own build-out indices, so it sits outside our AI stack; within the wider universe it belongs to the home improvement retail sleeve.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group carries no listed comparison for Home Depot; the market names Lowe's as the competitor it is most often set against.
Why Closelook tracks it
It sits in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index seat noted in the diary, and carries no Closelook score. The Morning 10 has flagged it ahead of an earnings print, and the Daily Pulse has grouped it among defensive names tested during a broad market pullback.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Home Depot keeps appearing among the defensive names the Pattern Scanner flags when the wider tape softens, and whether its earnings prints continue to move the retail read inside the Morning 10.

The Home Depot Inc (HD) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: HD news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for HD, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 4 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Bernstein SocGen Group, 2026-08-19

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for HD from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Bernstein SocGen Group — target 354 Target set to $354 (+1.8% to spot) 2026-08-19
  • Price target Jefferies — target 398 from 360 Target raised to $398 from $360 (+17.9% to spot) 2026-08-18
  • Upgrade RBC Capital — Sector Perform → Outperform Upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform 2026-08-17

4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 upgrade, 1 downgrade, 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is The Home Depot Inc (HD)?

The Home Depot Inc trades as HD on the US exchange (US) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is HD in a Closelook index?

Not currently — The Home Depot Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does HD trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -8.9% vs the 50-day and -11.4% vs the 200-day average, 28.2% below the 52-week high and +4.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does The Home Depot Inc do?

Home Depot runs home improvement stores across the United States and abroad, selling building materials, tools, lawn and garden goods and décor alongside installation services for flooring, windows, cabinets and heating and cooling systems. It also rents equipment and supplies maintenance and repair products to professional trades. Customers range from do-it-yourself homeowners to contractors, electricians, plumbers and property managers, who shop in stores or through its websites and apps. Closelook's peer group carries no listed comparison for Home Depot; the market names Lowe's as the competitor it is most often set against.

Where does The Home Depot Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Home Depot holds no seat in Rubin or Halo, Closelook's own build-out indices, so it sits outside our AI stack; within the wider universe it belongs to the home improvement retail sleeve. It sits in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index seat noted in the diary, and carries no Closelook score. The Morning 10 has flagged it ahead of an earnings print, and the Daily Pulse has grouped it among defensive names tested during a broad market pullback.

What has Wall Street done on The Home Depot Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on The Home Depot Inc on the Closelook wire is a price target by Bernstein SocGen Group on 2026-08-19 (target 354). 4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 upgrade, 1 downgrade, 2 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelook written about The Home Depot Inc?

The Home Depot Inc appears in 3 Closelook pieces, most recently Morning 10: The wire breaks — dollar-yen clears 159.5 overnight, and Fabrinet's clean beat gets sold into the print (2026-08-18); Daily Pulse: Narrow tape: Rubin leads as broad market softens across asset classes (2026-05-20); Dossier: Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030 (2026-03-06). What Closelook said most recently: HD reports today — consensus revenue ~$47B, EPS ~$4.73 — and Baidu (BIDU) reports pre-market, closing 103.67 Monday with shares indicated 104.12 ahead of the print (one data point, not a verdict). (Morning 10, 2026-08-18). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for HD, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 3 pieces · newest: Morning 10, “The wire breaks — dollar-yen clears 159.5 overnight, and Fabrinet's clean beat gets sold into the print” (2026-08-18)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where HD appears in the diary — 3 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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