It's Tuesday, February 23rd. Welcome to Marketfoolery. I'm Chris L. with me today.

It's Mr. Bell Barker. Good to see you. Good to be here.

We've got a couple of secondary offerings and we have a couple of fourth quarter earnings

reports. We're going to start with the earnings. Home Depot, fourth quarter profits

came in higher than expected, but shares falling a little bit today on concerns that 2021

is not going to be as strong for Home Depot as 2020 was and I will just point out

shares of Home Depot over the past year, even with the drop today shares are up a

little more like let's call it 10%, maybe 11%, 10, 11%, this is not a stock

that has shot to the moon in the past year. I'm it's still the same business.

They've done an amazing job over the last 10 months managing their business

in the wake of the pandemic. I'm not sure why there is at least a little bit

of pessimism today about Home Depot. The pessimism, if there is some, comes out

of what a small amount of guidance the company gave. So before addressing that on

the numbers, you know, the comps were up a comparable sales at existing stores

were up 24.5%, or total sales were up 24.5%, and comparable sales were up 25%.

So that gives you a sort of level set on how business did. They don't grow a lot of

stores at Home Depot. They just keep doing a great job at the stores they have,

not many clothes, not many open. So it's not a growth story through.

They expand the size of their stores in many cases with side lots for plants and

things like that and things that they can put outside the four walls of the store.

So growth for the company was about 25% for the year. And as you say, the stock only went

up about a limb percent. Part of that is because the sales growth was more expensive

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