The Home Depot, Inc. (HD)

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buisness is down company will outlast but wont perform as well thi year as other sectors.

Retrenchment of market before end of month/quarter rally.

Home Depot(HD) will get a boost from the summer projects crowd but once fall hits and daylight savings time makes it darker earlier...the prognosis is HD will be forced to close stores...my goodness they have 2 within 15 miles of each other near my home.

its hard on the home improvement market. its like 1/3 of America is out. of work and the other half is looking for work. but its coming back slowly. the market will improve as America's go back to work

HD is at least going down with the rest of the market; it will likely be hurting even more because of the double whammy of reduced consumer spending and the current state of the housing market. When housing (and the economy) rebounds, though, this may still have a chance.

Vacant parking lots and carts sitting empty...hard to find someone to help you...Reduction in head counts and returning to its core business model will help to maintain profitability...good dividend growth and will be on a come back but not now.

housing market!

Will struggle with the housing bust effecting contractors - needs to better serve do-it yourself'ers.

MESSY STORES POOR QUILITY ITEMS MADE IN CHINA FOR THE HD SO THEY CANE SELL IT TO THE DUMPO CUSTOMERS

Home Depot stores are messy, disorganized, and pale in comparison to their major competitor Lowes. HD is dead money until some radical changes are made.

Love the store, not sold on the stock.

bought some bolts today. place was empty. no gas guzzlin' trucks loadin' tons of wood for crap mcmansions. big empty box makes good echo everytime.

Slow housing and rising unemployment will forstall any new home projects hurting HD.

I want to love HD but I can't. There is an economic tidal wave moving against them and it's going to be a rough swim.

Real estate deflation does not move in their favor.

After losing 30-40% of its value in the past couple years, Home Depot has been remarkably resilient during the housing meltdown. Indeed, it's only down about 10% in the past 12 months.

How can this be?

Well, it's recently had a resurgence - gained about 25% in the past couple months. Why? Good question...do you think people are suddenly increasing their renovation budgets? Seems pretty darned unlikely, don't ya think?

HD is currently near the top of their trend cycle, which has a steep downward slope. Which strikes me as a pretty orgasmic time to short the stock. Even if the market decides to boom, I think this stock underperforms. And if the market remains bearish, I'd expect this stock to end up around $18-$20 within three months (that'd be minus 30-40%).

Time will tell!

The "consumer economy" is soooo over.

Closing stores, and it still isn't cheap enough for a buy. You need to be picky with retailers in this market, and Home Depot isn't where you want to be.

Every time i go into this store, it gets worse and worse, please oint me to the nearest lowes.