{"id":10864,"date":"2018-08-16T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2018-08-16T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:56:22","slug":"home-depot-bounces-back-big-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/home-depot-bounces-back-big-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Depot Bounces Back \u2013 In a Big Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Home Depot <\/strong>reported Q2 earnings results this week, and the company is back on track, to put it mildly. After a disappointing first quarter (though not nearly as disappointing as rival<strong> Lowe\u2019s<\/strong>), the Home Depot beat Wall Street expectations while realizing record quarterly revenue of $30.5 billion and seeing an 8.0% rise in comparable store sales. Team orange is feeling so good about the results that it boosted its guidance for the year \u2013 comp sales are now expected to finish up 5.3% with revenue up 7.0%.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, we\u2019ll see whether Lowe\u2019s rallied in Q2 when it releases earnings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/hard_180816.jpg\" alt=\"Home Depot\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Depot reported Q2 earnings results this week, and the company is back on track, to put it mildly. After a disappointing first quarter (though not nearly as disappointing as rival Lowe\u2019s), the Home Depot beat Wall Street expectations while realizing record quarterly revenue of $30.5 billion and seeing an 8.0% rise in comparable store&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/home-depot-bounces-back-big-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Depot Bounces Back \u2013 In a Big Way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-hardware","tag-insight","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}