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A little concerned. Retail has benefit from selling higher-ticket items, but last quarter HD had fewer transitions. It beat only because of those higher-ticket sales. Overall, we're still seeing disinflation, but how much longer can the consumer remain resilient? Savings are down a lot from a year ago. Will there be some trade-down?
EPS was $3.82 vs $3.8 expected. Revenues were $37.2 mln vs $38.2 expected. The company cut its sales forecast for the full year amid a slowing/normalizing consumer but shares are now up 4% after the release, so some of this weakness was likely expected. On a forward basis, shares trade at 18X earnings which is on the lower end of the valuation range for the company for the last 10 years. There will likely still be another noisy quarter or two in the short-term for the company, but we wouldn't have much in the way of concerns with HD, taking a longer-term outlook.
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