Home Depot Overview
Latest P/E ratio for Home Depot: 23.58 — see history and peer comparisons.
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The P/E ratio compares a company's stock price to its earnings per share. A lower P/E ratio may indicate that the stock is undervalued.
Home Depot posts a P/E ratio of 23.58. That is below the Consumer Discretionary sector average of 47.69. Comparing that reading with peers and prior periods is usually more useful than looking at the number in isolation.
For Consumer Discretionary stocks, a P/E ratio near 47.69 is typical. Home Depot's 23.58 is lower that level. That is roughly 50.6% below the sector mean. Whether that is a warning or an opportunity depends on growth outlook and other fundamentals shown elsewhere on Stockcircle.
Home Depot's P/E ratio of 23.58 comes from dividing a price-based measure by a related financial statistic. Changes can come from the stock price moving, the underlying fundamental shifting, or both. Track both the level and the trend — a rising multiple on falling fundamentals is a different story than a rising multiple on rising earnings.
Context for HD's P/E ratio usually means three checks: (1) trend versus prior periods, (2) level versus peers (average 47.69), and (3) consistency with growth and profitability. This page covers the first two; Home Depot's other metric pages and overview cover the third.
Judging Home Depot against Consumer Discretionary peers is usually better than using a market-wide rule of thumb. Business models inside Consumer Discretionary are more comparable, which makes gaps in P/E ratio easier to interpret. Start with 23.58 here, then scan peer and history charts to see if the gap is persistent.
