Comments on: Home Depot Makes It Seven In a Row

By: Dividends4Life

Dividends4Life — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:35:00 +0000

passivefamilyincome: I drive past a HD to shop at at LOW. LOW's numbers have improved over the last few years. I have them on my watch list.

Alain: HD's management is in trouble. It will be interesting to see if they can recover.

Best Wishes,
D4L

By: Alain

Alain — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Well colour me disapointed. I was looking for a glimmer that HD understood that thier days of double digit market growth was over and as a consquence would start hiking thier dividend. Seems that’s not the case.

By: passivefamilyincome

passivefamilyincome — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:34:00 +0000

I prefer LOW over HD any day of the week, just from shopping at the two stores. HD always is empty where I live. LOW actually has some people shopping at it. We recently were in the market for a new fridge and I went to both stores to comparison shop. I walked around for 30 minutes at HD looking for someone to help me and got tired of it and left. I went across the street to LOW and was approached by multiple employee’s asking if I needed help. This scenario has happened to me several times actually in the past several months. Outside of the numbers, I think LOW is a much better company.

Just my opinion.

By: Dividends4Life

Dividends4Life — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:15:00 +0000

Jake: I hope residential is about to turn, but I am not totally convinced yet. the inventory of constructed but unsold homes is still huge. The banks will probably be the first to recover.

Best Wishes,
D4L

By: Jake (DIB)

Jake (DIB) — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:22:00 +0000

I tend to think the downturn in residential property is quickly approaching a bottom. The fact HD hasn’t raised dividends for seven quarters in a row is evidence, to me anyway.

I had the exact opposite experience at HD with customer service a few weeks ago. I needed to return something and they were extremely fast and extremely friendly.