Home Depot (HD) Offering Possible 33.33% Return Over the Next 16 Calendar Days

Home Depot's most recent trend suggests a bullish bias. One trading opportunity on Home Depot is a Bull Put Spread using a strike $262.50 short put and a strike $257.50 long put offers a potential 33.33% return on risk over the next 16 calendar days. Maximum profit would be generated if the Bull Put Spread were to expire worthless, which would occur if the stock were above $262.50 by expiration. The full premium credit of $1.25 would be kept by the premium seller. The risk of $3.75 would be incurred if the stock dropped below the $257.50 long put strike price.

The 5-day moving average is moving down which suggests that the short-term momentum for Home Depot is bearish and the probability of a decline in share price is higher if the stock starts trending.

The 20-day moving average is moving up which suggests that the medium-term momentum for Home Depot is bullish.

The RSI indicator is at 72.45 level which suggests that the stock is neither overbought nor oversold at this time.

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LATEST NEWS for Home Depot

Home Depot (HD) Gains But Lags Market: What You Should Know
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:45:09 +0000
Home Depot (HD) closed at $266.18 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.26% move from the prior day.

Why KeyBanc Prefers Lowe's, Central Garden & Pet Over Home Depot
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:01:58 +0000
Trends in the home improvement industry are strong, according to KeyBanc Capital Markets data. The Analyst: Bradley Thomas has an Overweight rating on Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) with a $165 price target; a Sector Weight rating on Home Depot (NYSE: HD); and an Overweight rating on Central Garden & Pet Company (NASDAQ: CENTA) with a price target raised from $38 to $40.The Home Improvement Takeaways: During the second quarter, the indexed spend growth at Lowe's and Home Depot's was the strongest "we have ever seen in our data for the respective companies," Thomas said in a Sunday note. (See his track record here.)"We expect investments in the home to be a semi permanent shift in behavior during what seems to be an extended period that COVID-19 will impact the country," the analyst said. Looking ahead, he said home-related spending could benefit from a $500-billion wallet share as more consumers reduce their expenditures on travel, entertainment and dining out.The retailers have seen robust store growth in the months of June and July, Thomas said. The analyst prefers Lowe's over Home Depot given Lowe's larger exposure with the DIY customer.He reiterated an Overweight rating on Central Garden & Pet, which Thomas said is expected to benefit from garden and pet category growth.HD Price Action: Home Depot shares were up 0.38% at $266.50 at last check Monday. LOW Price Action: Lowe's shares were up 1.04% at $150.46. CENTA Price Action: Central Garden & Pet shares were growing 5.02% to $36.39.Latest Ratings for CENTA DateFirmActionFromTo Aug 2020KeyBancMaintainsOverweight May 2020KeyBancMaintainsOverweight Feb 2020KeyBancMaintainsOverweight View More Analyst Ratings for CENTA View the Latest Analyst RatingsSee more from Benzinga * Why This Ford Analyst Was 'Pleasantly Surprised' By Dearborn's Outlook * 4 Takeaways On Pinterest's Q2 Print * Why BofA Is Turning Bullish On Retailer At Home(C) 2020 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

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Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:05:00 +0000
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In One Earnings Call, UPS CEO Makes Job Her Own
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:31:12 +0000
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Some new CEOs prefer to sit back for awhile, watching and learning while they plot their legacy. Others carry on their predecessor’s plans. And then there are those who waste no time making the job their own. New United Parcel Service Inc. CEO Carol Tome falls into the latter category.Thursday marked the first earnings day for new CEO Carol Tome, a former Home Depot Inc. executive and UPS board member who succeeded long-time leader David Abney in June. I’d say it was a respectable debut, but that somehow cheapens it. It was downright impressive. The presentation felt refreshing on many fronts. Tome (pronounced “Toe-MAY”) was able to combine a frank and hard-nosed assessment of UPS’s past spending habits with a bit of personality. She exuded confidence and competence, but she also made some jokes and it felt like she was really being herself. That’s not an easy thing to do as a woman in business; Tome is one of only about 30 female CEOs among S&P 500 companies.It helped that Tome had robust numbers to tout: Adjusted earnings in the second quarter were twice as high as analysts had anticipated at $2.13 a share. Profit margins soared in the international business as UPS added more flights at higher yields to meet a spike in demand for products out of Asia. But they also held up much better than might have been expected in a domestic segment that saw average daily volume surge by nearly 23% in the quarter as coronavirus-lockdowns spurred an  e-commerce frenzy among everyday consumers. Such deliveries tend to be less profitable because getting online orders to residences requires more driving and additional stops than business shipments.The margin resilience in the domestic segment is partly a reflection of surcharges and route limitations that both UPS and rival FedEx Corp. have imposed on deliveries for their busiest customers. Heading into the earnings call, my biggest question was whether that was going to be sustainable once the immediate surge in Covid-buying began to fade. As soon as Tome started talking, though, it was clear this was the beginning of a much deeper change. “It's all about becoming better, not bigger,” Tome said. For her, this means rethinking how UPS invests in its business,  taking a tougher stance with retailers on pricing and prioritizing higher-quality volume.She gave the example of the company’s fleet of Boeing Co. 747s. The company pressed those wide-body jets into service to help handle the large demand for products out of Asia with fewer flights in an effort to “sweat the assets that we have.” But when an opportunity recently became available to buy more of the jets, UPS passed. The planes would have created excess capacity that UPS then would have had to find volume to fill, likely at unattractive prices. “We have not gotten the returns that we should have delivered on some of the capital investments that we made,” Tome said. “We will get the network right before we think about investing more dollars’’ in it, she said.That’s bad news for Boeing and other aerospace suppliers who had been hoping demand from freight companies might mitigate malaise among commercial airlines with the pandemic bringing air travel to a crawl. But it’s great news for UPS shareholders who have long complained about a lack of visible payoff from the billions upon billions of dollars the company has shelled out in the name of making its network more efficient and profitable.The 747s are just the tip of the iceberg. UPS is rethinking all levels of its spending and only going to put money toward projects that customers actually want and will pay for. It sounds simple, but it’s easy for large operators with long histories to get stuck in old-school trains of thought. Tome pointed out that an initial review of UPS’s 400 to 500 different products found that roughly 100 weren’t selling and yet all the offerings — along with the salesforce, technology and financial infrastructure that support them — had stayed on the books.Once you have the right products, you can go after the right kind of customer. Tome is speeding up an effort to reduce the amount of time packages from small- and medium-sized businesses spend in transit in an effort to bring on more of those kinds of customers. “Why am I focusing on SMB?” Tome asked, referring to small and medium businesses. “Because the SMB customer values an end-to-end network and they pay us for it.” The implied contrast is to a customer such as Amazon.com Inc., which is more interested in negotiating discounts relative to its large amounts of volume. Every percentage point in sales retained among small business clients translates into $170 million of high-quality revenue, Tome said. “This is a big company to turn; you can't do it overnight,” Tome said. But she seems to have made a remarkable amount of progress in a very short time as CEO and the level of detail on her longer-term outlook for UPS’s network was staggering. It just goes to show what fresh eyes can do. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Brooke Sutherland is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and industrial companies. She previously wrote an M&A column for Bloomberg News.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.

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