The Home Depot Declares Second Quarter Dividend Of 89 Cents

ATLANTA, Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Home Depot^®, the world's largest home improvement retailer, today announced that its board of directors declared a second quarter cash dividend of 89 cents per share. The dividend is payable on September 14, 2017, to shareholders of record on the close of business on August 31, 2017. This is the 122nd consecutive quarter the company has paid a cash dividend.

The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,282 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. In fiscal 2016, The Home Depot had sales of $94.6 billion and earnings of $8.0 billion. The Company employs more than 400,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index.

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