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      "title": "The Home Depot (HD) Stock Price, Chart & News",
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      "title": "The average US 30-year mortgage rate falls to 7.18% this week, its third straight decline",
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      "title": "Home Depot (HD) Stock Price Target 2026 & Analyst Forecast",
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      "title": "Home Depot Inc Stock (HD) Moved Up by 3.21% on Nov 2: Drivers Behind the Movement",
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      "title": "The Right Trader",
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  "body_markdown": "## Current Thesis\n\nHome Depot's shares have climbed on falling mortgage rates, but the company's own numbers still show shrinking customer traffic and no housing turn. On that evidence the shares look more likely to lag the S&P 500 over the next three months than to lead it. The third-quarter report on 2026-11-17 settles it: fiscal 2026 guidance has to hold and transactions have to improve for the climb to rest on results.\n\nThe shares closed at $348.26 on 2026-11-12, up from the 52-week closing low of $281.15 on 2026-10-05. The company has not changed its outlook during that climb. Its last word on demand, quoted by Yahoo Finance on 2026-10-08, was: \"We don't see anything that tells us there's an inflection.\"\n\nThe rating is Low because the price already carries the rate relief and the company's traffic has not yet confirmed it. Mortgage rates kept easing: Freddie Mac's 30-year fixed average fell to 7.11% on 2026-11-12, a fourth straight weekly decline. That helps the backdrop, but the shares already moved on it. Analysts are split ahead of the report, with targets from $322 at Stifel to $400 at JPMorgan.\n\n## Bull Case\n\n- **Mortgage rates fell four weeks running.** Freddie Mac's 30-year fixed average went from 7.32% on 2026-10-22 to 7.24%, 7.18% and then 7.11% on 2026-11-12, per the Freddie Mac survey. AP reported that the rate had reached 7.4% in early October.\n- **Bond yields are off their highs.** The 10-year Treasury yield rose above 5.30% in early October and was back at 4.84% at midday on 2026-11-05, its lowest since early September, per AP via WCAX.\n- **Second quarter beat, guidance held.** Sales were $47.9 billion for the quarter ended 2026-08-02, up 5.7%. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) were $4.92 against $4.68 a year earlier, per the company's 2026-08-18 release.\n- **Full-year outlook still stands.** On 2026-08-18 the company reaffirmed comparable sales of flat to up 2.0%, total sales growth of 2.5% to 4.5%, and adjusted EPS growth of flat to 4.0% from $14.69.\n- **Most targets sit above the price.** StockAnalysis listed an average target of $377.81 across 36 analysts with a \"Buy\" consensus on 2026-11-12. JPMorgan kept an Overweight rating and raised its target to $400 from $396 on 2026-11-09, per Benzinga.\n\n## Bear Case\n\n- **Customer traffic is shrinking.** Comparable customer transactions fell 1.0% in the second quarter. All comparable growth came from a 2.8% rise in average ticket, per the 2026-08-18 release.\n- **Targets are drifting, some below the price.** Stifel kept a Hold rating and cut its target to $322 from $346 on 2026-10-26, per Benzinga. Bank of America kept a Buy rating but cut its target to $397 from $407 around 2026-11-10, per StockAnalysis. Bernstein's Market Perform target of $357, raised from $344 on 2026-11-10, sits less than $9 above the 2026-11-12 close.\n- **Rates are still far above last year.** Freddie Mac's 7.11% average on 2026-11-12 compares with 6.24% a year earlier. AP described US home sales as \"stalled this year\" in its 2026-11-05 report.\n- **The Fed still leans toward hiking.** The Federal Reserve held at 3.75% to 4.00% on 2026-10-28 in a 10-2 vote, and both dissenters wanted a hike. The next decision is on 2026-12-09.\n\n## Setup & Price Structure\n\nHome Depot closed at $348.26 on 2026-11-12, after $353.42 on 2026-11-09 and $343.47 on 2026-11-06. The shares sit above both the 50-day moving average of $311.54 and the 200-day moving average of $329.49, as of the 2026-11-12 close. The 3-month change is 3.5%. The last close is 12.4% below the 52-week intraday high of $397.63 set on 2026-02-12.\n\nThe climb moved with the market. On 2026-11-02 the shares rose 3.21% while the retail sector rose 3.32%, according to TradingKey. On 2026-11-04 the Dow rose 2.9% as the Democrats' sweep of Congress lifted retailers and pulled yields lower, per Benzinga. On 2026-11-10 all 11 S&P sectors fell, per Benzinga.\n\nWhat the price already reflects: the shares rose from $281.15 on 2026-10-05 to $348.26 on 2026-11-12 with no change to the company's outlook, so the price already carries an easing in rates that the 2026-11-17 report has to confirm in traffic. The 200-day moving average and the $377.81 average analyst target frame the call on either side.\n\n## Catalyst Calendar\n\n- **2026-11-17:** Third-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings report and conference call. Shows whether comparable sales stay within flat to 2.0%, whether transactions improve on the second quarter's 1.0% decline, and whether the adjusted EPS outlook holds or is raised.\n- **~2026-11-18 (est.):** Lowe's third-quarter report. Indicates whether home-improvement demand trends are industry-wide or specific to Home Depot.\n- **2026-11-19:** Freddie Mac weekly mortgage rate survey. Shows whether the 30-year average extends its four-week decline below 7.11% or turns back up after the report.\n- **2026-12-09:** Federal Reserve rate decision and projections. A hike would push against the mortgage-rate easing that drove the October and November climb in the shares.\n\n## What Would Change Our Mind\n\nA daily close above $380, over the $377.81 average analyst target listed by StockAnalysis on 2026-11-12, which would show the shares leading; or raised fiscal 2026 comparable-sales or adjusted EPS guidance at the 2026-11-17 report.\n\n## Correlation Notes\n\nThe shares trade with mortgage rates and the 10-year Treasury yield. The sessions of 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-04 rose with broad retail and blue-chip rallies on lower yields, per TradingKey and Benzinga. Lowe's is the closest read-across, since it is expected to report on or around 2026-11-18 and shares the same housing exposure. Homebuilders and building-products names respond to the same Freddie Mac and Fed data, so a rate reversal would likely hit them together. The SRS Distribution business ties part of sales to professional contractors, whose spending follows housing turnover and remodeling activity.",
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