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ATLANTA, Nov. 14, 2017 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- The Home Depot®, the world's better home advance retailer, today appear sales of $25.0 billion for the third division of budgetary 2017, an 8.1 percent access from the third division of budgetary 2016. Commensurable abundance sales for the third division of budgetary 2017 were absolute 7.9 percent, and atone sales for U.S. food were absolute 7.7 percent.

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Net balance for the third division of budgetary 2017 were $2.2 billion, or $1.84 per adulterated share, compared with net balance of $2.0 billion, or $1.60 per adulterated share, in the aforementioned aeon of budgetary 2016. For the third division of budgetary 2017, adulterated balance per allotment added 15.0 percent from the aforementioned aeon in the above-mentioned year.
"Though this division was apparent by an aberrant cardinal of accustomed disasters, including assorted hurricanes, wildfires in the West, and earthquakes in Mexico, the basal bloom of our amount business charcoal solid," said Craig Menear, chairman, CEO and president. "I am appreciative of our aggregation and suppliers for their amazing efforts to abutment those in the aisle of the assorted accustomed disasters throughout the quarter. Our abutment of the impacted communities continues."
Impact of Hurricanes in the Budgetary Third Quarter
The Company estimates that hurricane-related sales absolutely impacted commensurable abundance sales advance by about $282 actor in the budgetary third quarter. The gross allowance on these hurricane-related sales was appreciably beneath than the Company average. In the budgetary third quarter, the Company additionally incurred about $104 actor of hurricane-related expense. As a aftereffect of the hurricanes, the Company's operating accumulation was abnormally impacted by about $51 actor in the budgetary third quarter.

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Updated Budgetary 2017 Guidance
Based on its year-to-date performance, basal backbone of the amount business, and projected blow accretion sales, the Company aerial its budgetary 2017 sales advance advice and now expects sales will be up about 6.3 percent and atone sales will be up about 6.5 percent. The Company additionally aloft its adulterated earnings-per-share advance advice for the year and now expects adulterated earnings-per-share advance of about 14.0 percent from budgetary 2016 to $7.36. The Company's adulterated earnings-per-share advance advice includes the appulse of $8 billion of allotment repurchases for budgetary 2017.
The Home Depot will conduct a appointment alarm today at 9 a.m. ET to altercate advice included in this account absolution and accompanying matters. The appointment alarm will be accessible in its absoluteness through a webcast and epitomize at ir.homedepot.com/events-and-presentations.
At the end of the third quarter, the Company operated a absolute of 2,283 retail food in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian ambit and Mexico. The Company employs added than 400,000 associates. The Home Depot's banal is traded on the New York Banal Exchange HD, -1.22% and is included in the Dow Jones automated boilerplate and Standard & Poor's 500 index.

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Certain statements independent herein aggregate "forward-looking statements" as authentic in the Private Securities Action Reform Act of 1995. Advanced statements may chronicle to, amid added things, the appeal for our articles and services; net sales growth; commensurable abundance sales; furnishings of competition; accompaniment of the economy; accompaniment of the residential construction, apartment and home advance markets; accompaniment of the acclaim markets, including mortgages, home disinterestedness loans and customer credit; appeal for acclaim offerings; account and in-stock positions; accomplishing of store, commutual retail, accumulation alternation and technology initiatives; administration of relationships with our suppliers and vendors; the appulse and accepted aftereffect of investigations, inquiries, claims and litigation, including those accompanying to the 2014 abstracts breach; issues accompanying to the acquittal methods we accept; assiduity of allotment repurchase programs; net balance performance; balance per share; allotment targets; basic allocation and expenditures; liquidity; acknowledgment on invested capital; amount leverage; stock-based advantage expense; article amount aggrandizement and deflation; the adeptness to affair debt on agreement and at ante adequate to us; the aftereffect of accounting charges; the aftereffect of adopting assertive accounting standards; abundance openings and closures; advice for budgetary 2017 and beyond; banking outlook; and the affiliation of acquired companies into our alignment and the adeptness to admit the advancing synergies and allowances of those acquisitions. Advanced statements are based on currently accessible advice and our accepted assumptions, expectations and projections about approaching events. You should not await on our advanced statements. These statements are not guarantees of approaching achievement and are accountable to approaching events, risks and uncertainties - abounding of which are above our ascendancy or are currently alien to us - as able-bodied as potentially inaccurate assumptions that could account absolute after-effects to alter materially from our expectations and projections. These risks and uncertainties accommodate but are not bound to those declared in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," and abroad in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our budgetary year concluded January 29, 2017 and in our consecutive Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
Forward-looking statements allege alone as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake to amend these statements added than as appropriate by law. You are advised, however, to analysis any added disclosures we accomplish on accompanying capacity in our alternate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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