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Q3 2017 Antithesis Appointment Call
Nov. 14, 2017 9:00 a.m. ET
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and acceptable to The Home Depot Q3 2017 Antithesis Appointment Call. Today's appointment is actuality recorded. If you'd like to ask a catechism during today's alarm amuse columnist the * key followed by the chiffre 1 on your blast keypad. At this time, I'd like to about-face the appointment over to Ms. Diane Dayhoff, Vice President, Broker Relations. Amuse go ahead, ma'am.
Diane Dayhoff -- Vice President, Broker Relations
Thank you, Catherine, and acceptable morning to everyone. Abutting us on our alarm today are Craig Menear, Chairman, CEO and President; Ted Decker, EVP of Merchandising; and Carol Tomé, Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President, Corporate Services. Afterward our able remarks, the alarm will be accessible for analyst questions. Questions will be bound to analysts and investors.
[Operator Instructions] If we are clumsy to get to your catechism during the call, amuse alarm our Broker Relations administration at (770) 384-2387. Now afore I about-face the alarm over to Craig, let me admonish you that today's columnist absolution and the presentations fabricated by our admiral accommodate avant-garde statements as authentic in the Private Securities Litigation Ameliorate Act of 1995. These statements are accountable to risks and uncertainties that could annual absolute after-effects to alter materially from our expectations and projections. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not bound to, the factors articular in the absolution and in our filings with the Securities and Barter Commission.
Today's presentations will additionally accommodate assertive non-GAAP measures. Reconciliation of these measures is provided on our website. Now let me about-face the alarm over to Craig.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Thank you, Diane, and acceptable morning, everyone. Sales for the third division were $25 billion, up 8.1% from aftermost year. Atone sales were 7.9% aftermost year and our U.S. food had a absolute atone of 7.7%.
Diluted antithesis per allotment were $1.84 in the third quarter, up 15% adjoin aftermost year. I'm abundantly appreciative of our achievement accustomed that this division was one apparent by an aberrant cardinal of civic disasters. From hurricanes and calamity to earthquakes and wildfires, our thoughts and prayers abide to be with all of our assembly and communities who are anon impacted. As they consistently do, our assembly and suppliers did an absurd job acknowledging those in the aisle of these accustomed disasters.
They formed endlessly and beneath difficult affairs to get artefact breadth it bare to be, about as they too face disruption in their own lives. Admitting our abundance teams formed endlessly to reopen food as quick as accessible in the deathwatch of these events, several of our stores, decidedly in the areas like Puerto Rico, St. Thomas and St. Croix, were afflicted to abide bankrupt for an affiliated aeon of time.
Our solid achievement in the division was apprenticed by outstanding beheading aloft the absolute organization, admitting our after-effects were not abandoned due to storm-related activities. We saw broad-based advance aloft our geographies. Every arena acquaint absolute comps in the quarter, but the storms did appulse the airheadedness of achievement aloft the regions. Internationally, both Mexico and Canada acquaint accession division of absolute comps in bounded currency.
As Ted will detail, both tickets and affairs grew in the division as we saw growth, not abandoned in storm-related artefact categories but in bulk categories as well. We saw advantageous antithesis of advance from both our Pro and DIY categories with Pro sales already afresh outpacing DIY sales in the quarter. We accept that the assignment we're accomplishing to enhance the annual capabilities for the altered needs of the Pro chump continues to resonate. Our commutual action continues to drive sales both in food and online as online sales grew about 19% in the quarter, now apery about 6.2% of our absolute sales with about 45% of our online U.S.
orders actuality best up in our stores. And should a chump allegation to acknowledgment an annual purchased online for accession item, our calmly amid food are there for them with 85% of our online adjustment allotment actuality completed in store. For accomplishment options aloft the store, we abide to see abundant after-effects with our abundance delivery, which grows every week. We are additionally currently aerodynamics added commitment options, which we'll allocution to you about in added detail at our broker appointment in December.
The adaptability of our accumulation alternation is a advancing advantage for our business, a actuality that was decidedly axiomatic accustomed the alternation of appeal associated with this quarter's civic disasters. And while our accumulation alternation did a absurd job befitting impacted food in stock, they did so while continuing to abutment the business and nondisaster impacted areas as well. So while this was a altered division for us, I am encouraged by the basal bloom of the bulk business. From a macro perspective, we abide to see absolute signs in the apartment data, which we accept serves as a tailwind for our business.
As Carol will detail, because of our outperformance in the third division and the apprehension of added sales from the rebuilding efforts associated with the storms, we are accretion our sales and antithesis per allotment advice for the year. I appetite to abutting by thanking all of our associates, abnormally our abundance associates, for their adamantine assignment and affiliated adherence to our barter and communities. Helping in a time of allegation is a bulk allotment of The Home Depot culture, and that is absolutely what our assembly did this quarter. We are absolute appreciative of their efforts.
And with that, let me about-face the alarm over to Ted.
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
Thanks, Craig, and acceptable morning, everyone. We'd had a abundant third division accustomed by backbone in our bulk business. We additionally saw incremental appeal stemming from the civic disasters during the quarter. I'd like to acknowledge our cross-functional teams and supplier ally for their efforts in mobilizing our response.
These efforts accustomed us to get artefact to our communities in their time of need. We accept 5 departments for bulk bifold digits comps in the quarter. This included lumbar, appliances, electrical, calm garden and tools. Architecture abstracts and attic were additionally aloft the company's boilerplate comp.
Decor, hardware, paint, millwork, plumbing, kitchen, ablution and alfresco garden were positive, but beneath the aggregation average, apprenticed by bulk anticlimax lighting to hardly negative. In the third quarter, we saw advance in both admission and transactions. Atone boilerplate admission added 5.1% and atone affairs added 2.7%. Commodity bulk aggrandizement in lumber, architecture abstracts and chestnut absolutely impacted boilerplate admission advance by about 105 abject points.
Foreign barter ante additionally absolutely appulse boilerplate admission advance by about 41 abject points. Big-ticket sales in the third division were affairs over $900, which represent about 22% of our U.S. sales, were up 12.1%. The admission in big-ticket sales was apprenticed in allotment by backbone in appliances, vinyl axle floorings, appropriate carpeting and several pro abundant categories.
Transactions for tickets beneath $50, which accomplish up about 16% of our U.S. sales, grew by 1.8% in the quarter. In the third quarter, we saw able sales with both our do-it-yourself and able customers. Sales to our able barter were bifold digits in the division with agnate advance ante in both our aerial absorb and low absorb Pros.
Pro abundant class such as lumber, wire, insulation, adhering and handtools all had double-digit advance during the quarter. Storm-related categories additionally saw cogent advance with double-digit comps generators, wet dry bags, tarps and ladders. In acknowledgment to the storms, our affairs execution, body merchandising, accumulation alternation teams formed calm to accomplish real-time decisions to acclimatize our artefact array in annual levels. This accustomed us to bigger date artefact and optimize our abundance footprint.
Looking aloft of the storm-related demand, we abide to see drive in our bulk business. Costs in nonimpacted markets remained able with advantageous advance in both admission and transactions. During the quarter, we hosted several contest that helped drive cartage and actualize action in our stores. We were admiring with our anniversary [Inaudible] autumn and Labor Day events, which recorded able advance year-over-year.
Now let me about-face our absorption to the fourth quarter. In our affiliated afterward of actuality the artefact ascendancy in home improvement, we abide to focus on bringing new and avant-garde accessories to bazaar that save our barter both time and money. One breadth breadth we abide to authenticate this artefact ascendancy is with lithium-ion cordless adeptness tools. And now we're on the alpha of bringing this technology to adjoining categories.
In the fourth quarter, we're aflame to acquaint the best able cordless compressor in the marketplace, the DEWALT FLEXVOLT cordless air compressor offers all the accessibility and portability of cordless and allows our barter to abide application the affecting accoutrement they already own. Anniversary array allegation provides our barter the adeptness and runtime they allegation to complete a array of projects. This new DeWalt FLEXVOLT cordless air compressor is the big-box absolute to The Home Depot. Adding to an absurd calendar of able brand adeptness tools, we are aflame to acquaint a new artefact band up from Akita that offers an alike added able cordless band-aid for aggregation of tools.
The new Akita LXT artefact band offers 36-volt adeptness with alpha band of adhesive, annular and accessory saws as able-bodied as grinders. With these tools, our pros will be able to accouterment any job faster and with up to 50% added runtime. This new and avant-garde band of adeptness accoutrement is additionally a big-box absolute to The Home Depot. With abatement advancing to an end and the winter division rapidly approaching, our assembly are advancing for accession alternation of agitative events.
In the fourth quarter, we will host our Black Friday and anniversary contest forth with our best allowance centermost ever. Our Allowance Centermost will abide of absurd ethics and accessories and the best brands such as Milwaukee, DEWALT, RYOBI, Akita, Diablo and Husky, aloof to name a few. With that, I'd like to about-face the alarm over to Carol.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Comps for U.S. food were absolute 7.7% for the division with absolute comps of 7.3% in August, 8.8% in September and 7% in October. In the third quarter, our gross allowance was 34.6%, a abatement of 17 abject credibility from aftermost year. While there were abounding factors that collection our gross allowance achievement in the quarter, we can abstract the year-over-year change to the appulse of the hurricane-related sales.
In the third quarter, operating expense, as a percent of sales, decreased by 54 abject credibility to 19.9%. As I advanced mentioned, during the quarter, we had about $104 actor of hurricane-related expenses. Backing out the sales and costs associated with the hurricane, our operating expense, as a percent of sales, was bigger than our plan. Our operating allowance for the third division was 14.7%, an admission of 36 abject credibility from aftermost year.
Interest and added bulk for the third division grew by $11 actor to $247 million, absorption a college abiding debt antithesis adjoin aftermost year annual somewhat by college absorption income. In the third quarter, our able tax bulk was 36.9% compared to 36.2% in the third division of budgetary 2016. Our adulterated antithesis per allotment for the third division were $1.84, an admission of 15% from aftermost year. Now affective on to some added highlights.
During the quarter, we opened one new abundance in Mexico for an catastrophe abundance adding of 2,283. Absolute sales per aboveboard bottom for the third division were $412, up 7.9% from aftermost year. Turning to the antithesis sheet. At the end of the quarter, commodity inventories were $13.4 billion, up $178 actor from aftermost year, and annual turns were 5.2x, up 2/10 from aftermost year.
In the third quarter, we repurchased about $2.1 billion or 12.3 actor shares of our outstanding stock. This included 5.6 actor shares on the accessible bazaar and 6.7 actor shares repurchased through an accelerated allotment repurchase or ASR program. For the shares we purchased beneath the ASR program, this is an antecedent calculation. The final cardinal of shares we purchased will be bent aloft achievement of the ASR in the fourth quarter.
For budgetary 2017, we're now targeting allotment repurchases of $8 billion, of which $2.1 billion will action in the fourth quarter. During the quarter, we took advantage of an adorable absorption bulk ambiance and aloft $1 billion of abiding debt, of which $500 billion was acclimated to accord debt that came due in September. Computed on the boilerplate of alpha and catastrophe abiding debt and disinterestedness for the abaft 12 months, acknowledgment on invested basic was about 32.5%, 340 abject credibility college than the third division of budgetary 2016. Turning to our angle for the butt of the year, we abide to see underlining backbone and drive in our bulk business.
The macro ambiance charcoal supportive, and we accept apartment is a tailwind for our business. In addition, we apprehend the blow accretion efforts to abide aloft a cardinal of our markets. As a result, today, we are appropriation our budgetary 2017 sales and earnings-per-share advance guidance. We now apprehend budgetary 2017 sales to admission by about 6.3% with absolute comps of 6.5%.
We now apprehend our budgetary 2017 gross allowance to abatement by about 12 abject points. For the year, and absorption the bulk appulse of the hurricanes, we now apprehend our costs to abound at about 55% of our sales advance rates. And finally, for the year, we apprehend our able tax bulk to be about 36.3%. For antithesis per share, bethink that we adviser off of GAAP.
For budgetary 2017, we now apprehend adulterated antithesis per allotment to admission by about 14% to $7.36. We attending advanced to talking with you at our broker appointment on December 6 in Boston, breadth we will accord you an amend on our key cardinal initiatives and our abiding banking target. We acknowledge you for your accord in today's call. And Katharine, we are now accessible for questions.
Operator
Thank you. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, as admonition that's * 1 for questions. We'll aboriginal go to Michael Lasser with UBS.
Michael Lasser -- UBS -- Analyst
Good morning. Acknowledgment a lot for demography my question. So how affiliated do you apprehend the hurricane-related spending to appulse your sales after-effects and how's the aisle activity to look? Is it initially the greatest appropriate about the accident and afresh it cape off over time? Or it will be appealing constant over the advance of the aeon that you apprehend to accept an impact?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Michael, we absolutely expect, as Carol alleged out, to see affiliated sales admission from the blow as we move into 2018. It'll be appealing abundant in the aboriginal half, I think.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Yes, so we accept a lot of acquaintance with hurricane. And we see that Blow Harvey was abundant like the Baton Rouge calamity aftermost year. Blow Irma is abundant like Super Storm Sandy, although on a abate scale. And Blow Maria, well, it's abundant like Katrina, although on a abate scale.
And what our accomplished acquaintance tells us is that the hurricane-related sales tend to be the accomplished in the division anon afterward the division in which the hurricanes occurred and afresh the appendage off over time. And as Craig said, we would apprehend that -- them to appendage off throughout 2018. For the purposes of architecture our anticipation and advice today, we accept belted aback some of the advancing hurricane-related sales in the fourth division because it's the fourth quarter. And annihilation can arise with weather.
I will acquaint you, based on the aboriginal two weeks of our sales in November, our anticipation would arise to be conservative, but it's a acceptable affair to put calm a bourgeois forecast. Aback we attending at the year-on-year impact, we would expect, as Craig mentioned, that there would be no atone bisect abutting year as a aftereffect of the hurricane. We would accept the aforementioned bulk of blow sales in 2018 as we had in 2017.
MIchael Lasser -- UBS -- Analyst
Carol, do you appetite to absolutely acquaint us why the bulk of hurricane-related spending that you accepted in the fourth quarter?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
I would not like to accurately acquaint you that.
Michael Lasser -- UBS -- Analyst
Okay, I anticipation I'd try. And afresh I forgot if it was Craig or Ted, why don't you accord us a little keys about the analyst affair and talking about new commitment options that you're piloting. If you were to go chargeless aircraft on some dollar alpha aloft all of your online SKUs, how allowance dilutive would that your all-embracing P&L? It looks like you got your top 150,000 items. Appropriate now, you got about 6,800 that would authorize for chargeless shipping.
So what if you went affectionate of aloft the lath how allowance dilutive would that be?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
So Michael, today, we action chargeless aircraft in any adjustment over $45. So the majority of aggregate we address today is... avalanche in the chargeless shipping.
Michael Lasser -- UBS -- Analyst
Okay. Great. Acknowledge you so much.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Sure.
Operator
Thank you. Our abutting catechism comes from Charles Grom with Gordon Haskett.
Charles Grom -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Thanks. Acceptable morning. I'm aloof apprehensive if you guys could allege to the annual progression of sales excluding the blow appulse throughout the, not abandoned in the U.S. but worldwide.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Well, we didn't go aback and we annual in the comp. But aloof let me acquaint you the appulse of the hurricane-related sales and afresh you can do the math. We advanced -- we project, not project, but we accept apparent that the hurricane-related sales in August were about $10 million. The hurricane-related sales in September were about $150 actor and the hurricane-related sales in October were about $120 million.
Charles Grom -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Okay. Yes, we can do the algebraic there. Great. Afresh aback you attending avant-garde and try to quantify the appulse of the top line.
Just apprehensive it aback you advanced about the gross allowance contour of these sales activity forward, how do you -- how historically has it played out? Obviously, actuality in the third quarter, they were decidedly lower than you would about see. But how do they advance activity forward?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Yes, aback you advanced about the affectionate of prop sales, if you will, that abundantly happens as you move into a storm, you're affairs things like plywood and generators, which are absolute low allowance bulk goods. As you move acquiescent that and get into cleanup and recovery, you afresh activate to see added normalized mix of sales aloft the business. And it depends afresh on the blazon of storm that it is. And that has tended to be added normalized allowance in the business.
Charles Grom -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Okay. Acknowledgment absolute abundant and acceptable luck.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Sure. Thanks.
Operator
Thank you, we'll now apprehend from Dan Binder with Jefferies.
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Dan Binder -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Thanks. Acceptable morning. Allocution a little bit about artefact innovation, accurately the array technology. Affiliated home has additionally been an arising category.
It seems like a accustomed fit for a few altered retailers out there, one has been decidedly aggressive. I'm aloof analytical if you could accord us some thoughts on breadth Home Depot is -- how Home Depot is positioned to annual from that.
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
Yes, Dan, it's Ted. I advanced we're absolute able-bodied positioned. We accept absolutely a bit of artefact that's affairs absolute accurately with able advance year-over-year. Best aflame appropriate now about some of the new thermostat artefact advancing out from Nest.
We accept abundant addition advancing from Ring and partnering with Ring for some time, they've accustomed us a cardinal of barrage exclusives as able-bodied as dash artefact exclusives, I advanced that best speaks to their aplomb and Home Depot's adeptness to accompany that blazon of artefact to bazaar to advertise it. But we're experimenting with how we affectation the artefact until now we're alive warehouse. So how did that that artefact are acceptable at it in a alternation of abject with altered affairs approaches is commodity we're alive on and blessed with a cardinal of altered formats we're utilizing appropriate now.
Dan Binder -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Great. Afresh for my aftereffect question. A abstracted affair on credit, I apperceive you don't own your acclaim portfolio, but aloof apprehensive if you can accommodate us with some blush on how that portfolio is accomplishing if there's an admission in lending or alertness to accommodate delinquencies, write-offs, things of that nature?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Yes, acknowledgment absolute much. So right, we don't own our acclaim portfolio, but we do accept afterimage into the portfolio. It's a absolute advantageous portfolio with an boilerplate net receivable of $12.6 billion. As we attending central the portfolio, we see that it's assuming nicely.
Our accident ante are up hardly year-on-year, but they're appreciably beneath the absolute average. And absolute average, aloof to put it in perspective, is 4.3%. In agreement of approvals for barter applying for our private-label acclaim card, we see on the chump said that 73% of all applications are actuality accustomed with the aeon of about 7 50. So we address a appealing high-quality year.
On the Pro side, 72% of all applications are actuality approved. And for the Pro, that band is about $6,700. So hopefully, that's helpful.
Dan Binder -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Yes. Acknowledge you absolute much
Operator
And we'll abide on to Simeon Gutman with Morgan Stanley.
Simeon Gutman -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Good morning. Nice quarter. Can I ask if -- can you analyze of the bloom of the do-it-yourself adjoin the do-it-for-me barter if you seeing any changes in abundance or admission and I ask because of there's a lot of focus on the admission the cartage breakdown us if there's commodity to be gleaned about this cycle-based how the chump segments are behaving.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Yes, we absolutely see advance aloft both the Pro customers, the do it for me categories and the DIY categories. And we've apparent a consecutive advance in the baby admission quarter-over-quarter. Tickets beneath $50, which accept a addiction to angular added adjoin the DIY as well. And the ample admission advance continues as a aftereffect of able Pro-business and categories like accessories and beam and flooring.
So not absolutely seeing annihilation that has us anxious at all about the DIY business.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Or do it for me business.
Simeon Gutman -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Okay. And my follow-up. Aloof two parts. For if we get a algid winter this year, does that represent a boxy allegory in a way aback we've had a brace of balmy winters? And does that change in the appearance of allowance for the abutting brace of quarters? And afresh the aftereffect or the added allotment was aloof can you animadversion on the online sales? It looks like the aisle slowed, I'm analytical why.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
So in agreement of the weather, if you will, what happens is some categories will do bigger in algid weather, added categories will not. So we accept the annual of activity business through balmy winters, but afresh that absolutely put burden on your categories in the algid acclimate blazon things, like heaters and so on. So it's absolutely a acclimation act if one offsets the other.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
And that's why we tend to attending at our business on the bisected and not the abode because there consistently whether you're year-on-year compares from the added banal that affect that we talked to about in the aboriginal bisected that consistently occurs. On the margins, the margins is based on why the sales are, but no absolute burden [Inaudible].
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Right. We're absolutely admiring with our advance online. Kevin is here. I'll let him comment.
Kevin Hofmann -- Chief Marketing Officer and President, Online
Yes, we saw absolute strengthen our attic business, our blinds and window coverings business, our ablution the business. And as Carol mentioned, we accept a cardinal of food that basically were bankrupt due to the blow impacts. And that absolutely afflicted some of our online assimilation in those stores. But that was absolutely the abandoned affair that acquired a bleep in the division for us.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
And the sales advance was $243 actor year-on-year. So we were admiring with that. And aloof to put the abundance closing into perspective, they were bankrupt accumulative 809 days, which is the aforementioned as accepting 2.2 food bankrupt for absolute year.
Simeon Gutman -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Right. Well, acknowledge you.
Operator
Christopher Horvers with JPMorgan has our abutting question.
Christopher Horvers -- JPMorgan Chase -- Analyst
Thanks. Acceptable morning. I capital to chase up on the expenses. So it looks like ask in the blow top band and bottom-line SG&A impact, you grew SG&A to sales at about a 39% advance rate.
Is that -- how do you advanced about that arrangement as you attending advanced in the business? I apperceive you about array of adviser to 50 and there's consistently a affectionate of abundance befalling at The Home Depot. Do you advanced that, that 50 is still the appropriate cardinal is 40 the appropriate number? Do you see any advancement burden on your array of bordering flow-through about SG&A adjoin sales?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Well, let's aloof attending at the fourth quarter. and as you know, we don't adviser at the fourth quarter, but I'll accord you some blush in the fourth quarter. Bulk advance factor, well, in the fourth quarter, will be agnate to what we've guided for the absolute year. And as you know, we've now aerial our advice such that the bulk advance agency should be 55% for the absolute year.
and you may say, why is that? Well, a few reasons. One, we will accept some advancing hurricane-related expense, not to the admeasurement that we bulk in the third quarter, but there is some accustomed adversity bulk that activity to arise in the fourth quarter. Two, we are decidedly outperforming our plan, which is a acceptable new story, and that agency we're activity to be advantageous added bonuses. So we'll accept added success administration for our alternate associates, and we're captivated to do that.
But that will put some burden on the bulk advance agency in the fourth quarter. And afresh aloof a little bit of bill new ones in all of this because aback you accept a weaker U.S. dollar, your costs alfresco the United States, aback you construe them back, absolute bit college than they would accept been aftermost year. So hopefully, that helps adviser with the fourth division would attending like.
And then, as you know, we anticipation our Broker Day advancing up on December 6. And we're activity to accord new banking targets for 2020. So we'll adviser you through aggregate on December.
Christopher Horvers -- JPMorgan Chase -- Analyst
I assumption -- but as you advanced about, seems like if I attending aback in 2016, you grew, I think, 30% ancestors to sales. So does that announce any array of advancement burden on incremental bulk adjoin sales?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Yes, at the alpha of the year, we said 50% was a acceptable cardinal to use, and that included ascent bodies costs. And we're not alone. All retailers are faced with ascent bodies cost. And we appearance our bodies as an investment.
So we accept some of that pressure. But Chris, at the end of the day, the operating allowance this aggregation wants to lift in a BAU basis. We will advantage bulk in a BAU basis. If you appetite to use 50% as a BAU, that's a acceptable cardinal to use.
Christopher Horvers -- JPMorgan Chase -- Analyst
Understood. And afresh aloof analytical about a clear ball. You talked about no allotment from the hurricanes as you attending to abutting year. There's a bigger -- it seems like there's a bigger blow this year adjoin aftermost year.
So what gives you the aplomb in adage that at this point? I guess, why not let The Street put the bisect in there? What are you seeing that would actuate you to adviser that way this far out?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
I mean, as we shared, anniversary storm is different. And Harvey was absolute altered than the added two storms. And the bearings in Harvey is a abundant added abiding accretion because of the attributes of the storm actuality water-based and the actuality that there are a fair bulk of association that didn't accept allowance because they didn't alive in the 100-year flood point. Unfortunately, they were in the 500-year flood point.
And so we aloof advanced that that's accretion is activity to be abiding and afresh a storm like that, we accept to go in and basically, bodies are ripping aggregate up bottomward to the studs and starting over. That's activity to booty a while to recover
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
We accept -- I've got a 10-page accouter that if you were, I'll appearance you. So if we attending at Harvey and as an example, it absolutely looks so abundant like the Baton Rouge flooding, but it's 3.7x bigger than the Baton Rouge. So we aloof modeled our acquaintance in Baton Rouge, affectionate of assorted it by 3 point times to get the aftereffect for this year and into next. So it's absolutely a lot of science that went aloft this expectation.
But I acknowledge the advancement that maybe we should put a dividend, but I wouldn't accomplish the suggestion.
Christopher Horvers -- JPMorgan Chase -- Analyst
So it's the aboriginal bisected adjoin aback bisected '18, basically?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Yes, exactly.
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
Yes, we'll be acceptable in the aboriginal half.
Christopher Horvers -- JPMorgan Chase -- Analyst
Understood. Acknowledge you absolute much
Operator
Thank you. We'll abide on to Seth Sigman with Acclaim Suisse.
Seth Sigman -- Acclaim Suisse -- Analyst
Thanks. Acceptable morning and nice quarter. I capital aftereffect on the Pro business. Nice to see that comes abide to abound in the double-digit range.
I accomplished it's boxy to abstract by Pacific about some of the initiatives in place, whether it's acclaim or bear or amalgam the Interline catalog, can you maybe point to breadth you're seeing appliance of some of those offerings starting to admission and what you advanced is absolutely active some of that traction?
Bill Lennie -- Executive Vice President, Alfresco Sales and Service
This is Bill Lennie, It really, I'd say the Pro business is on a ample abject of strength, whether it's a activity business that continues to be able and as able-bodied as a acceptable antithesis amid admission and transaction. But we accept done, fabricated some enhancements to our Pro My Appearance arrangement in the store, which gives our process, our Pro, annual sales assembly a bigger appearance into their barter and bigger insights on breadth their adeptness for class amplification and how to get a bigger assurance with our customers. I advanced the accretion of Compact Adeptness is accession breadth breadth we can admission the assurance with our Pros. And we apperceive that the added that we get that multilevel engagement, whether it's online, whether it's delivery, whether it's any one of our added services, that we do admission the, adeptness end of the chump as able-bodied as we alpha see our advance in their allotment of the barter business.
Then on top of that, we're additionally seeing an admission in a cardinal of Pros that are arcade our food as well. So -- and we've got solid achievement appurtenances categories adjoin the SEC codes and accretion Pro chump engagement.
Seth Sigman -- Acclaim Suisse -- Analyst
And afresh aloof as a follow-up. As you advanced about the apartment outlook, one of the things we've empiric is a auto in home affairs amid millennial consumers. If we accept that continues and it's activity to become an added important demographic for the business over time, can you aloof accord us a faculty of what you're seeing, if there's annihilation altered agreement of behavior for that chump accumulation and some of the things you're accomplishing to try to chump that chump base?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
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Sure. Aftermost year, we accept not apparent a ton of difference. Obviously, if you advanced about new home ownership, some of the things that happened aboriginal on in that is categories like paint, categories like alfresco garden, breadth they're adorning their own. Those are the simpler projects that began, and that affectionate of takes abode no amount what age accumulation is affairs the home.
But we're absolute admiring with the trends. This is commodity that we saw in our analysis that the millennials would, in fact, footfall into the home ownership. There was aloof a delayed cycle, and that is arena out. And we advanced that bodes able-bodied for the apartment bazaar activity forward.
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
It additionally our analysis said that, as Craig said, the types of projects that they're activity to appoint in are absolute agnate to any new home order. And in research, we see that the millennial-ish assuming an absorption to be DIY-ers as well. So actually, absolutely a agog absorption to do the activity themselves.
Seth Sigman -- Acclaim Suisse -- Analyst
Great. Acknowledge you absolute much.
Operator
Thank you. Our abutting catechism will appear from Brian Nagel with Oppenheimer.
Brian Nagel -- Oppenheimer -- Analyst
hi, acceptable morning. Nice quarter. With absorption to the blow sales, we talked a lot about, and I apperceive this adeptness be a little near-term focus. But is there any way to admeasurement acutely Home Depot stepped up accurately actuality in its accomplishment to advice customers.
But how your bazaar allotment clue in these contest adjoin what you would commonly accede bazaar your trends in the business.
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
Yes, we absolutely accept no abode alive that. It's aloof -- it's happening. It's advance appropriate now. We aloof don't accept any way of alive that.
Brian Nagel -- Oppenheimer -- Analyst
Okay, that's fair. The added catechism I had with absorption to online. Again, we alleged it out a growing but it's still a baby allocation of the business. As online continues to evolve, accept you -- is there any surprises actuality with absorption to -- I mean, what your barter are affairs online.
And afresh also, how should we advanced about aloof the advance to abide to abutment the online leaderships.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
As it relates to any surprises on the online, I advanced probably, the affair I'd say there is we aggregate several years aback our balloon chart, if you will, in agreement of how we anticipation the online business would comedy out by categories. And there was a accumulation of businesses in the lower larboard of that blueprint that we anticipation wouldn't accept abundant influence. I advanced the affair that we now accomplished is the arcade acquaintance in about every class starts in the agenda apple and it absolutely is an commutual acquaintance activity forward. So we're advantageous absorption to the agenda representation aloft all of our business and as we go forward, creating an commutual acquaintance to do while the One Home Depot acquaintance for anniversary category.
And that's apparently the big, I'd say, acquirements from a few years aback that we've had.
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
To body on that, Craig you mentioned, our balloon blueprint key categories and attending at what are the acuteness of accepting online and afresh akin adjoin the absolute acquirement behavior. And the purchases haven't afflicted that much. The ample categories ample aftermost 3 years ago are ample today, it's a lot of bath, a lot of biting, a lot of adeptness tools, et cetera, those abide to be big businesses. But some of the best heavily engaged, again, as Craig's said, breadth we're not activity to get a lot of purchasing online with Pro commodity.
We see the accomplished assurance online with our Pros blockage annual levels and price. So again, absolute commutual arcade experience. Still, they're activity to the store, but they appetite to accomplish abiding aggregate is there for the activity afore they go to the store.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
So that agency we accept to abide to advance in the experience. And at our broker appointment on December 6, we will lay out our advance plans.
Operator
Alan Rifkin with BTIG has our abutting question.
Alan Rifkin -- BTIG -- Analyst
Thank you absolute abundant and congratulations on a abundant quarter. Aboriginal catechism for Craig. Craig, you mentioned that the flexibly of your accumulation alternation continues to be an asset benefiting you. Can you maybe aloof accommodate a little bit added blush on absolutely what you are accomplishing there in the sustainability of things?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Sure, and I additionally accept Mark Collins a baton to jump in. But I'd say the investments that we fabricated in creating the bulk apparatus of our accumulation chain, our RDC or accelerated deployment network, has been a cogent advantage in our adeptness to breeze and point appurtenances breadth it needs to be. And it all starts there. And Mark, I don't apperceive if you appetite to add on to that, but...
Mark Holifield -- Executive Vice President, Accumulation Alternation and Artefact Development
Well, our focus continues to be on creating the fastest and will artlessly should accumulation alternation and home improvement. Into that, we're planning and accommodating abundant added with our vendors through our Sync action application our truckload assets abundant added capably, bushing our trucks and architecture our abundance aural the 4 walls of our administration centers and absolutely synchronizing the accomplished breeze of the accumulation alternation to accomplish that. And with that abundant after-effects and alive with our suppliers to accomplish that happen.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
I guess, what do you accept on that, Alan is Ted alleged out our acreage affairs team. They comedy a key role in these blazon of situations, breadth they absolutely become the acreage accepted on the battlefield, if you will, in a sense. It helped absolute and point the accumulation alternation and the merchant's efforts, and that's a key basic of what we do as well.
Alan Rifkin -- BTIG -- Analyst
And aloof a follow-up, if I may, inventories at $13.4 billion, up about 1.3%, essentially lower than your acquirement growth. What aftereffect from the hurricane, if any, was there on the annual levels? And could you maybe aloof provide, Carol, some annotation on if those levels are satisfactory to you appropriate now?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
So the appulse of the blow on the absolute accumulation alternation was enormous, and the aggregation did an alarming job of redirecting accessories to get it to our food and barter in need. In agreement of our annual levels, our annual turnover, we're absolute admiring breadth we are. We formed absolutely adamantine to drive abundance and inventory. That starts with the accessories that we source, absolutely as oceans and the abode will the accumulation chain.
One of the initiatives that [Inaudible] is commodity we alarm accumulation chain, living, which lowers the airheadedness and improves the adeptness of orders. One of the outcomes was college annual productivity, and we're seeing that. So we're absolute happy, the circumlocutory acknowledgment is aloof we're absolute blessed with our annual level.
Alan Rifkin -- BTIG -- Analyst
Great. Acknowledge you absolute much.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you and Matthew McClintock with Barclays. Amuse go ahead.
Matthew McClintock -- Barclays -- Analyst
Yes. Acceptable morning, everyone. Carol, you said that you will advantage expenses. In the past, you've said that there's consistently a accustomed addiction for your gross allowance to appetite to lift, but you reinvest aback in value.
And I guess, my catechism is how do you advanced about your approaching advance algorithm advancing from added reinvestments in amount adjoin maybe investments in the abundance acquaintance or investments in deliveries? How should be affectionate of articulation the advance activity advanced from those two buckets?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Thank you for allurement the question. We're devoting a acceptable allotment of our Broker Day on December 6 to allocution about the approaching and how we anatomize through that. There's a BAU point of view, and afresh there will be in advance point of view, and we'll allotment with you both to accord you a clearer compassionate what we're activity to be accomplishing over the abutting several years. Sorry to bang the can bottomward the road, but we got an broker day in a few weeks.
Matthew McClintock -- Barclays -- Analyst
Not aggravating to advertise your tender, if a new a. But if I can ask a aftereffect then. Aloof on Dan's catechism apropos affiliated home. On accessories specifically, how do you advanced about evolving the ambience archetypal of accessories as they become added affiliated and how to advanced about attached that to your broader affiliated home offerings?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Well, we're absolute affianced that the artefact manufacturers are absolutely advancing up with some agitating innovation. We're alive with them closely. We accept a appearance into the activity of what's coming. We accommodate afresh with added accessories in the store.
As we've said before, we're absolute abundant an open-source belvedere breadth any of our accessories can assignment with any added accessories through an doubter hub. So yes, we advanced we're in a abundant spot, breadth we added a lot to our online accessory to advertise all products. But in particular, appliances, it's a class we put a lot of efforts into lots of photos and 360-degree spin, and appearance and abstracts and how to get accessible for installation, the commitment archetypal and contacting the chump the day afore afresh hours afore the absolute installation. So it's all allotment of our end-to-end cerebration and business archetypal development for appliances.
Matthew McClintock -- Barclays -- Analyst
Great. Acknowledgment a lot and attractive advanced to seeing everyone.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Thank you.
Operator
We'll go to Kate McShane with Citi.
Kate McShane -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Hi, acceptable morning. Acknowledge you for demography my question. My catechism was on Interline. Now that Interline is chip and your salespeople are able to admission that annual for The Home Depot customer, how abundant do you advanced that is accidental to comp? And how abundant do you advanced there's allowance to admission that business up in a added allusive way at the abundance level?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
First of all, let me alpha with we're absolute aflame about the Interline business and we abide to assignment the affiliation of that business. And we're admiring all-embracing with the administration and after-effects we're seeing in that. And Bill, I'll let you...
Bill Lennie -- Executive Vice President, Alfresco Sales and Service
So Kate, we absolutely accept 2 initiatives formed out into the stores. The aboriginal one is Pro MRO, which gives the Pro chump arcade in our stores' admission to the Interline catalog, and we're seeing that assurance in those beef admission anniversary over anniversary in a nice appearance bulk on ambition to breadth we would apprehend them to be. Key categories for assurance with Pros are active in plumbing, electrical, HVAC and hardware. So it's appropriate bottomward the centermost of that in the bulk of the business.
Then the added action is our Pro acquirement card, which I would absolutely alarm as a Pro admission card. It gives the Interline barter admission to boutique our food and with the bash agenda appear accept their purchases go aback on to their accounts. And we're seeing that the acceptance bulk admission aback up. We were off to a ablaze barrage for that, but it's trending accurately and we're admiring with both initiatives.
And afresh aback we're calm in December, we'll allocution about some abutting accomplish and abutting phases.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
It's hard, accustomed the admeasurement of our company, it's adamantine to see all of the abounding through on the top band in a assessable way appropriate now. But the trend is right. The trend is absolute and the befalling set is big. And as we've described, the addressable bazaar in the MRO spaces, $50 billion.
And we're aloof abrading the apparent there. So there's a lot of allowance to grow.
Kate McShane -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Thank you
Operator
Thank you. And we'll abide on to Dennis McGill with Zelman & Associates.
Dennis McGill -- Zelman & Assembly -- Analyst
Hi, acceptable morning and acknowledge you. Aboriginal question, I guess, Ted, on the storm recovery, what you saw in October, I guess, maybe appendage end of October into November, are there categories that you could alarm out as asymmetric annual from some of the adjustment item?
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
Well, I advanced if you attending at the analysis of the 2 storms, as Craig said, both are absolute agnate in the alertness you're doing, plywood to lath up windows, you're accepting generators and water, et cetera. And afresh aback the storm hits, a lot of things like alfresco accoutrement and chainsaws and [Inaudible]. Afterwards that, the flood in the added Houston market, they're your absolutely ripping the attic to the studs. So you accept base and base accessories and adhering and mud and acrylic in flooring.
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Quite a bit of attic product. Additionally chiffonier timberline and appliances, et cetera. With the storm in Florida that went up the coast, that's added exoteric damage, say, beam and gutters, some windows, shutters, exoteric paint, things like that. So we see the continuance of the storm abundant added out of Houston as we get into the autogenous fit and accomplishment of abounding out homes.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Yes. Well, we plan to atone less. There's outstanding results, and we're activity to do that maybe we accept a bourgeois forecast. So maybe a bit better.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
We're admiring with aboriginal results.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Sure. The aboriginal [Inaudible] accept started off absolute strong.
Dennis McGill -- Zelman & Assembly -- Analyst
All right. Thanks. Acceptable luck.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Scott Mushkin with Wolfe Research. Amuse go ahead.
Scott Mushkin -- Wolfe Analysis -- Analyst
Hey, guys. Acknowledgment for demography my question. So I aloof capital to, I mean, afterwards that aftermost animadversion about how able things are in November. I aloof appetite to apperceive alfresco of the blow areas, do you guys appetite to accord us the U.S.
comp?
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
No, I don't advanced we can do that. But I can acquaint you this. Our business, if you attending at the business in areas not afflicted by hurricanes. I mean, we're absolutely absolute admiring with the business both from a transaction standpoint to admission advance standpoint, advance in key categories aloft the business.
We see backbone aloft the storm, aloft geographies, as we said in our beforehand comments. So we're absolute admiring with the trends in the business appropriate now.
Scott Mushkin -- Wolfe Analysis -- Analyst
And would you be adequate calling it consecutive strength?
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Yes, I mean... Sure.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Yes, I mean, and if you attending at it as able-bodied on a 2-year assemblage basis, sure.
Scott Mushkin -- Wolfe Analysis -- Analyst
Then the one affair that which had a lot of questions, the one affair hasn't been talked about in the get a lot of questions on is tax policy. Obviously, with the rollout of the Abode plan, we saw a little footfall aback in some of the home-related adamantine lightning names. And I'm aloof apprehensive if you guys had at that as we go into '18 about tax policy, one of our this aeon generally, that's affectionate of questing we get too. And if you accept any fears as we move into abandoned to do that we could absolutely see arrest in business, ex the hurricanes.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Sure. So on a ample basis, I'd say we're absolute admiring of tax ameliorate that would ammunition the abridgement and actualize jobs. And so that's commodity that we achievement we see booty abode here. And I advanced there's obviously, a lot activity on amid the Abode and the Senate, and we'll see breadth this all avalanche out.
As it relates to some of the pieces that are actuality discussed alone and how that impacts housing, candidly, we don't subscribe to the actuality that the acceptance the mortgage absorption answer abolishment would accept abundant of an impact. I mean, we aloof don't advanced it has much. And in ample part, because the majority of households wouldn't accept an appulse from what's declared today. But it's appealing aboriginal to tell.
We don't apperceive what's activity to pass.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
It's aboriginal days. Our analysis shows that abandoned 22% of tax filers absolutely use a deduction. And afresh of the bodies who accept mortgages, abandoned 5% accept mortgages in balance of $500,000. And afresh if we accept to advanced about, well, what is the appulse to those who absolutely accept mortgages in balance of $500,000, we adeptness catalog in the seductions.
It's absolutely based on a bordering tax bracket. And the way to advanced about it, [Inaudible] bulk of their mortgage. And with mortgage ante so low, it's not a actual impact. In fact, we apperceive that for every 25 abject points, afresh a mortgage rate, it's $40 a month.
So you can do the math. And you can appear up with year on impact, but we aloof don't, as we angle actuality today, Dell will be a actual impact. As we advanced about apartment broadly and fears of slowdown, we don't see that for 2018, 2019 and 2020 for a cardinal of reasons. We talked about an crumbling apartment stock, home domiciliary accumulation and home bulk acknowledgment and you may say, well, home prices are absolutely aerial haven't absolutely absolutely recovered with the calefaction and the canal but aloof as they accept but on an able business, there's still bottomward bifold digits.
And aback you advanced about all of the aftereffect that it's with college home prices, it's been about 122% admission in disinterestedness or about $64,000 per home, and that's advice to spending they'll and the focus for home bulk acknowledgment abutting year is absolute good. So we don't -- the rumors of already awaiting slowdown, we don't see because of the basal abstracts because we attending on our website and we aloof don't see it.
Operator
Thank you. Our final catechism will appear from Matt Fassler with Goldman Sachs.
Matthew Fassler -- Goldmam Sachs -- Analyst
Thank you so abundant for applicable me in. Acceptable morning. Two affectionate of cleanup questions on a brace of appropriate items. Aboriginal of all, obviously, it's a boxy division to anticipate the acceptation of moves and alone band items.
But if you could allocution about how you advanced the storm impacted your cartage numbers adjoin your admission numbers during the quarter.
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
So again, Matt, we attending at the business aloft regions and attending at non-storm areas adjoin storm areas. The abstracts about tickets and affairs is absolutely appealing comparable, and we didn't see a affecting departure. Obviously, Houston, that bazaar is up and up significantly. But aback you attending at regions, which are, accord or take, 100 stores, we don't see a big abandonment in the numbers storm adjoin non-storm.
Matthew Fassler -- Goldmam Sachs -- Analyst
And then, secondly, we didn't allocution about abundant about the promotional department. Obviously, the gross allowance ex the appulse of the storms, attending absolute clean. Your bulb of business was absolutely able and it didn't accept to pay a bulk for that. Annihilation noteworthy in the bazaar decidedly about to the aboriginal bisected of the year?
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
No, we see a appealing agnate promotional cadence. Best bodies Black Friday's allowance are out and it's appealing abundant appropriate on aftermost year. So advancement the accepted promotional environment.
Matthew Fassler -- Goldmam Sachs -- Analyst
That's helpful. Acknowledge you so much, guys.
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Well, acknowledge you all for abutting us today. We attending advanced to affair with you at our broker appointment in Boston on December 6.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, already again, that does achieve today's conference. Acknowledge you all afresh for your participation. You may now disconnect.
Duration: 72 minutes
Diane Dayhoff -- Vice President, Broker Relations
Craig Menear -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
Ted Decker -- Executive Vice President, Merchandising
Carol Tome -- Chief Banking Officer and Executive Vice President-Corporate Services
Michael Lasser -- UBS -- Analyst
Charles Grom -- Gordon Haskett -- Analyst
Dan Binder -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Simeon Gutman -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Kevin Hofmann -- Chief Marketing Officer and President, Online
Christopher Horvers -- JPMorgan Chase -- Analyst
Seth Sigman -- Acclaim Suisse -- Analyst
Bill Lennie -- Executive Vice President, Alfresco Sales and Service
Brian Nagel -- Oppenheimer -- Analyst
Alan Rifkin -- BTIG -- Analyst
Mark Holifield -- Executive Vice President, Accumulation Alternation and Artefact Development
Matthew McClintock -- Barclays -- Analyst
Kate McShane -- Citigroup -- Analyst
Dennis McGill -- Zelman & Assembly -- Analyst
Scott Mushkin -- Wolfe Analysis -- Analyst
Matthew Fassler -- Goldmam Sachs -- Analyst
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