A first draft, for you to edit
What you would be watching on HD
This would already have written to you once. Debt to Equity was 9.84x in 2024, past the line below, and the filing landed 2025-03-21.
The Home Depot, Inc. on NYSE. Every line below is a multiple of this company’s own current figure. It is yours to accept, edit or drop.
| The number | Today | Your line | Room | Last broke |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt to Equitystays at or below 6.66x | 5.33x | 6.66x | 1.33x | 2024at 9.84x, filed 2025-03-21 |
| Return on Invested Capitalstays at or above 16% | 19.94% | 16% | 3.94% | No test against the past |
| Dividend Ratestays at or above $9.22 | $9.32 | $9.22 | $0.10 | No test against the past |
One of these would have written to you: the year in the last column is the most recent fiscal year that rule was false, read from the annual accounts this company filed with the SEC.
What this cannot tell you
What the numbers say today, not the day one stops being true. The reasons are not written down.
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What this draft cannot do(4 noted)
- Return on Invested Capital is watched every night and has no honest test against the past. This indicator depends on inputs (market price, multi-statement composites) whose history is not deep enough to re-derive it with the same formula as the live value, so no honest retro-test exists for it.
- Dividend Rate is watched every night and has no honest test against the past. This indicator depends on inputs (market price, multi-statement composites) whose history is not deep enough to re-derive it with the same formula as the live value, so no honest retro-test exists for it.
- Price stays below your value was not proposed. A margin of safety is measured against your own estimate of what the company is worth: a target price you write on the thesis, or a discounted cash flow you save. Neither exists without an account, and we will not stand a number of our own in its place.
- Shares Outstanding (filed) was not proposed. We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
- 31 further fiscal years are on record here and not printed above, because they came from a commercial data feed rather than from a filing you can open.
Every line below is a multiple of this company's own current figure, offered for you to accept or edit, not a recommendation and not advice. Computed from accounts filed with the SEC. Past filings do not indicate future results. Risk disclaimer.