Home Depot vs Target
HD and TGT side by side. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.
How HD and TGT compare
Home Depot is the larger company, worth 4.7 times as much as Target ($328B against $70.1B).
On earnings, Target is cheaper: it trades at 16.0× trailing earnings, against 23.0× for Home Depot.
Home Depot grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (2.5% versus 2.0% for Target).
Home Depot keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 8.4% compared with 4.1% at Target.
Both pay dividends: Home Depot yields 2.8% and Target 3.0%.
Target scores higher on the StockData Score (21 against 17 for Home Depot), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.
Key numbers
A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.
| Metric | HD | TGT |
|---|---|---|
| Size and price | ||
| Market cap | $328B | $70.1B |
| Share price | $329.20 | $154.38 |
| Change, 1 year | −12.9% | 64.0% |
| Change, 5 years | −10.6% | −39.3% |
| Beta (5Y) | 0.90 | 0.90 |
| Employees | 472K | 415K |
| StockData Score | ||
| Total score | 17 | 21 (better) |
| Valuation score | 2 | 4 (better) |
| Growth score | 1 | 4 (better) |
| Performance score | 5 | 5 |
| Health score | 5 (better) | 4 |
| Dividend score | 4 | 4 |
| Valuation | ||
| P/E | 23.0× | 16.0× (better) |
| P/S | 1.9× | 0.7× (better) |
| P/B | 19.8× | 3.9× (better) |
| EV/EBITDA | 15.5× | 9.0× (better) |
| P/FCF | 21.8× | 15.7× (better) |
| PEG | – | 1.49 |
| FCF yield | 4.6% | 6.4% (better) |
| Fair value | $262.12 | $172.88 |
| Margin of safety | −25.6% | 10.7% (better) |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth (TTM) | 2.5% (better) | 2.0% |
| Revenue growth, 5Y average | 4.5% (better) | 2.3% |
| Net income growth (TTM) | −2.7% | 11.8% (better) |
| EPS growth (TTM) | −2.9% | 12.2% (better) |
| EPS growth, 5Y average | 3.6% (better) | −1.2% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 33.2% (better) | 29.3% |
| Operating margin | 12.4% (better) | 5.6% |
| Net margin | 8.4% (better) | 4.1% |
| FCF margin | 8.9% (better) | 4.1% |
| Return on equity | 104% (better) | 26.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 25.0% (better) | 16.9% |
| Financial health | ||
| Debt / equity | 3.18 | 0.86 (better) |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.07 | 1.11 (better) |
| Interest coverage | 8.7× | 14.0× (better) |
| Current ratio | 1.08 (better) | 0.99 |
| Altman Z-score | 5.59 (better) | 3.30 |
| Piotroski F-score | 4 | 6 (better) |
| Dividends and buybacks | ||
| Dividend yield | 2.8% | 3.0% (better) |
| Payout ratio | 64.8% | 47.1% |
| Years of dividend growth | 16 | 17 (better) |
| Dividend growth, 5Y average | 8.9% | 11.0% (better) |
| Buyback yield | −0.10% | 0.22% (better) |
| Shareholder yield | 2.7% | 3.2% (better) |
| Ownership | ||
| Held by institutions | 75.2% | 86.5% |
| Held by insiders | 0.07% | 0.27% |
| Insider net buying, 12 months | −$6.7M (better) | −$26.0M |
| Superinvestors holding | 4 | – |
| Short interest, % of float | 1.2% | 3.8% |
Go deeper
- HD stock overview
- HD income statement
- HD valuation and score
- TGT stock overview
- TGT income statement
- TGT valuation and score
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