The Home Depot Inc. (HD)☆

The Home Depot is the largest U.S. home-improvement retailer, serving both do-it-yourself customers and professional contractors. It is a member of the S&P 500 and is classified in the Consumer Discretionary sector — retailers, automakers and leisure companies whose sales rise and fall with consumer confidence.

The Home Depot Inc. trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol HD. As of the most recent market data, the stock was priced around $327.83, down 0.71% on the session, giving The Home Depot Inc. a market capitalization of roughly $327.07B.

Over the past 52 weeks, HD has traded between $289.10 and $426.75. Shares are valued at a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 23.1, a common gauge of how richly the market prices the company's earnings. The Home Depot Inc. also pays a dividend, currently yielding around 2.82%.

As one of the larger companies in the Consumer Discretionary sector, The Home Depot Inc. is closely followed by investors and often moves with broader trends across retailers, automakers and leisure companies whose sales rise and fall with consumer confidence. Traders watch HD for earnings reports, analyst rating changes, and headlines that can shift sentiment — each of which is summarized on this page as it breaks.

Because the S&P 500 is weighted by market value, The Home Depot Inc.'s size means its share-price moves can also nudge the index as a whole, making HD a stock that even index investors pay attention to.