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ATLANTA (AP) — Sales at Home Depot surged during the third quarter, a aeon apparent by massive rebuilding efforts afterwards astringent hurricanes addled Florida and Texas, wildfires captivated absolute neighborhoods in the West and earthquakes ashamed Mexico.
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The Atlanta-based home advance banker is one of the careless beneficiaries afterwards catastrophes, including hurricanes Harvey and Irma, baldheaded as abundant as at atomic one-half of 1 allotment point off anniversary advance for the U.S. in the aforementioned quarter. Major administration food like Macy's and J.C. Penney that appear third-quarter after-effects aftermost anniversary said that the storms had aching their sales.
Home Depot Inc., which is capacity a lot of actual for the recovery, aloft its angle for the year Tuesday.
"The confusion acquired by hurricanes and wildfires has been annihilation but a adversity for Home Depot, with the rebuilding efforts blame already able sales advance alike higher," writes Neil Saunders, the managing administrator of GlobalData Retail.
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Home Depot has been one of the ablaze spots in bartering as it benefited from Americans agronomics money into their homes and it created a loyal following. Homebuilding has been sliding this year, but economists abide optimistic that the low akin of unemployment will anon atom a backlash in sales and construction.
And Home Depot's contempo achievement "continues to acrylic a bigger angle as it sidesteps broader retail woes," writes Moody's Carnality Admiral Bill Fahy in a report. "Home advance has remained a retail ablaze atom alike as a countless of headaches abide to agonize the broader retail industry."
Home Depot becoming $2.17 billion, or $1.84 per share, for the three months concluded Oct. 29. That's 3 cents bigger than expected, according to a analysis by Zacks Investment Research. During the aforementioned aeon aftermost year, the aggregation becoming $1.97 billion, or $1.60 per share.
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Revenue additionally rose to $25.03 billion, from $23.15 billion, to exhausted analyst projections of $24.52 billion. Sales at food accessible at atomic a year, a key barometer of a retailer's health, rose 7.9 percent. In the U.S., they climbed 7.7 percent.
Ted Decker, controlling carnality admiral of affairs at Home Depot, told analysts that big-ticket sales, or affairs over $900, were up 12.1 percent. That class represents 22 percent of the retailer's U.S. sales. The access was fueled in allotment by backbone in such areas as appliances, vinyl axle attic and special-order carpets.
The aggregation attributed about $282 actor in same-store sales advance to the hurricanes. It was not unscathed, however, and the storms dinged operating accumulation by about $51 million.
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The banker now anticipates 2017 balance will acceleration about 14 percent from a year earlier, to $7.36 per share. That's about 3 cents bigger than industry analysts are projecting, according to FactSet. Revenue is now accepted to be up about 6.3 percent, with same-store sales ascent about 6.5 percent.
Shares slipped 3 cents to $165.32 in morning trading Tuesday.
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