September 11, 2017

For today's bulletin, we take a look at two of our home improvement retailers in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. We also provide a link to download FREE STOCK REPORTS on Lowe's $LOW and Home Depot $HD.

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Home Improvement Centers Scramble To Help Hurricane Victims

Home Depot (HD) is the one of world's largest home improvement retailer. The company offers a level of service unprecedented among warehouse-style retailers. Home Depot stores cater to do-it-yourselfers, as well as home improvement, construction and building maintenance professionals. The Home Depot currently operates in the USA, Canada, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Argentina. The company also operates EXPO Design Centers across the U.S. and Villager's Hardware in New Jersey.

Lowe's Companies Inc. (LOW) is a retailer of home improvement products in the world, with specific emphasis on retail do-it-yourself and commercial business customers. Lowe's specializes in offering products and services for home improvement, home decor, home maintenance, home repair and remodeling and maintenance of commercial buildings. Lowe's principal customer groups are do-it-yourself retail customers and commercial business customers.

Neither of these companies are currently rated a BUY by our models. But, as we always note, our models run on fundamental financial data rather than news, rumours, etc. Over the past few weeks, stock in both companies has seen a run up in share prices by investors anticipating that the effects of both Harvey and Irma would boost the bottom line and quarterly results.

News media were awash in reports of the retailers moving hundreds of thousands of sheets of plywood, lots of generators, and other items needed by all those seeking to batten down the hatches ahead of the two massive storms.

Now, it is anticipated that home owners will be once again emptying the stores as they address damage and rebuild their homes.

Both retailers are ready, as they have greatly updated and expanded their supply chains so that they can ship new inventory and assist with the rebuilding phase. These retailers have worked with government officials to garner special transportation and other privileges that allows them to get quickly back up and running in the aftermath of disasters.

Depending on the damage, we would expect to see a definite boost for these firms in the aftermath of the storms. But, our ratings are driven by one-year forecast prices, and thus we we not see much change there until earnings and other data points are adjusted upwards to reflect the additional storm and recovery-driven sales numbers..

For today's bulletin, we provide full data for both Home Depot and Lowe's, and we have also provided links for our detailed valuation and forecast reports on both firms so that you may compare them in depth.

ValuEngine continues its HOLD recommendation on Home Depot for 2017-09-08. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that Home Depot has the probability to ROUGHLY MATCH average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Company Size but UNATTRACTIVE Book Market Ratio.

You can download a free copy of detailed report on Home Depot (HD) from the link below.

ValuEngine Forecast
	Target Price*	Expected Return
1-Month	159.96	0.19%
3-Month	159.35	-0.20%
6-Month	161.27	1.01%
1-Year	163.31	2.29%
2-Year	160.48	0.51%
3-Year	156.20	-2.17%

Valuation & Rankings
Valuation	2.73% overvalued	Valuation Rank(?)	44
1-M Forecast Return	0.19%	1-M Forecast Return Rank	66
12-M Return	21.64%	Momentum Rank(?)	73
Sharpe Ratio	1.26	Sharpe Ratio Rank(?)	95
5-Y Avg Annual Return	19.42%	5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank	87
Volatility	15.42%	Volatility Rank(?)	79
Expected EPS Growth	11.48%	EPS Growth Rank(?)	43
Market Cap (billions)	210.40	Size Rank	100
Trailing P/E Ratio	22.72	Trailing P/E Rank(?)	56
Forward P/E Ratio	20.38	Forward P/E Ratio Rank	34
PEG Ratio	1.98	PEG Ratio Rank	23
Price/Sales	2.16	Price/Sales Rank(?)	46
Market/Book	159.52	Market/Book Rank(?)	2
Beta	1.05	Beta Rank	36
Alpha	-0.03	Alpha Rank	46

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ValuEngine continues its HOLD recommendation on Lowe's Companies Inc. for 2017-09-08. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that Lowe's Companies Inc. has the probability to ROUGHLY MATCH average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Company Size but UNATTRACTIVE Book Market Ratio.

You can download a free copy of detailed report on Lowe's Companies Inc. (LOW) from the link below.

ValuEngine Forecast
	Target Price*	Expected Return
1-Month	78.67	0.14%
3-Month	78.51	-0.06%
6-Month	78.10	-0.59%
1-Year	79.87	1.67%
2-Year	79.07	0.66%
3-Year	80.30	2.22%

Valuation & Rankings
Valuation	4.06% undervalued	Valuation Rank(?)	58
1-M Forecast Return	0.14%	1-M Forecast Return Rank	62
12-M Return	5.98%	Momentum Rank(?)	50
Sharpe Ratio	1.02	Sharpe Ratio Rank(?)	92
5-Y Avg Annual Return	19.07%	5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank	86
Volatility	18.65%	Volatility Rank(?)	73
Expected EPS Growth	10.94%	EPS Growth Rank(?)	42
Market Cap (billions)	76.43	Size Rank	99
Trailing P/E Ratio	17.91	Trailing P/E Rank(?)	69
Forward P/E Ratio	16.14	Forward P/E Ratio Rank	52
PEG Ratio	1.64	PEG Ratio Rank	28
Price/Sales	1.13	Price/Sales Rank(?)	65
Market/Book	17.85	Market/Book Rank(?)	9
Beta	1.05	Beta Rank	37
Alpha	-0.17	Alpha Rank	26

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