Dow Today: Home Depot (HD) Lower

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading down 63.0 points (-0.5%) at 12,732 as of Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012, 1:35 p.m. ET. During this time, 462.8 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 606.1 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,234 issues advancing vs. 1,717 declining with 124 unchanged.

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Holding back the Dow today is Home Depot (NYSE:HD), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a nine-cent decline (-0.1%) bringing the stock to $63.24. This single loss is lowering the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 0.68 points or roughly accounting for 1.1% of the Dow's overall loss. Volume for Home Depot currently sits at 5.4 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 8.4 million shares.

Home Depot has a market cap of $93.64 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. Shares are up 50.6% year to date as of Monday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 1.9%.

The Home Depot, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer. The company's stores sell building materials, and home improvement and lawn and garden products to do-it-yourself, do-it-for-me (at D-I-F-M), and professional customers. The company has a P/E ratio of 22, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Home Depot as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, notable return on equity and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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