Home Depot Raises Dividend by 50%

We have a nice rally on our hands this afternoon. The big news today is that Disney (DIS) is reportedly in talks to buy Pixar (PIXR). I can’t say that this is a big surprise, but it’s a neat story. It’s the marriage of old and new media. Disney’s stock hasn’t been a good buy in ten years. If the deal goes through, Steve Jobs would be Disney’s largest shareholder. I’m sure he won’t be a silent partner, which is probably a good thing.
There’s more good news for our Buy List. Home Depot (HD) raised its earnings forecast and increased its dividend by 50% to 60 cents a share.

For 2005, the company expects earnings at the high end of its projected growth range of 17% to 18%, and sales at the midpoint of its growth range of 10% to 12%. On this basis, Home Depot sees earnings of $2.64 to $2.67 a share for the year on sales of more than $81 billion. The current average estimates of analysts polled by Thomson First Call are for profit of $2.67 a share for 2005 on sales of $80.53 billion.

Posted by on January 19th, 2006 at 1:58 pm


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