Home Depot (HD) | Sentiment

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

Home Depot (The)

Last Updated: 2026-10-27View stock page →

SENTIMENT RATING

SENTIMENT SCORE

Bearish

45 / 100

Summary

Coverage is mixed-to-slightly negative: one bearish piece reports Home Depot shares are down about 18% amid a weakening housing market and notes Lowe's fell ~30% and may have a valuation edge, while two other articles are neutral Q2 earnings and peer-comparison analyses benchmarking revenue, margins, same-store sales and valuation versus Best Buy. The GDELT aggregate tone of 45/100 modestly supports the cautious view, so the near-term outlook looks guarded without clear buy-side catalysts across the set.

Signal Breakdown

NNews

39/ 100Neutral

3 verified publisher articles from recent coverage.

TVTV

0/ 100No data

Limited TV coverage this week.

VVideos

0/ 100No data

Limited video coverage this week.

GTGDELT Tone

45/ 100Neutral

GDELT tone + context across verified sources.

What’s Driving Sentiment

Bullish Signals

No current bullish signals listed.

Risk Factors

Shares are down about 18% amid a weakening housing market, indicating near-term demand concerns.
The piece notes Lowe's fell ~30% and argues Lowe's has a valuation edge, creating competitive valuation pressure on Home Depot.
Q2 earnings analyses benchmark revenue, margins, same-store sales and guidance, signaling investor scrutiny of near-term performance.

Key ThemesNo themes listed

Evidence

News (3)TV (0)Videos (0)

Lowe's Is Down 30%, and Home Depot Is Down 18%. Here's the Housing Stock I'd Buy Even With 30-Year Mortgage Rates at 7.3%.
2026-10-27Source: TIINGO
Summary: Home Depot shares are down about 18% amid a weakening housing market; the piece notes Lowe's fell ~30% and argues Lowe's has a valuation edge, implying negative pressure on Home Depot's near-term outlook.
Bearish
Home furnishing and improvement retail stocks Q2 results: benchmarking Home Depot (NYSE:HD)
2026-10-27Source: TIINGO
Summary: Analyzes Q2 earnings and key takeaways for home furnishing and improvement retailers, specifically benchmarking Home Depot (NYSE: HD) against peers to compare revenue, margins, same-store sales, and guidance.
Neutral
Analyzing Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Best Buy (NYSE:BBY)
2026-10-26Source: TIINGO
Summary: Compares Home Depot and Best Buy across dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, and earnings to determine which is the better large-cap consumer discretionary investment.
Neutral

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Formula & Methodology

News: GDELT discovers coverage; only publisher passages that directly name the company qualify as news evidence.
TV: Internet Archive TV captions are retained only with a match-centered quote that directly names the company.
Video: Recent Bullish Gator videos tagged to the company; the item summary and publisher label feed the judge.
Holistic AI judge: A single Azure OpenAI call reads the news, television, and video evidence together and returns the rating, a 0–100 composite, and a short rationale. Thresholds are enum-only: 65+ Bullish, 35 or lower Bearish, Neutral in between.

Data Source

News evidence comes from the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (via BigQuery); TV evidence from the Internet Archive TV News Archive; video evidence from recent Bullish Gator video coverage. Azure OpenAI filters per-article relevance and serves as the holistic AI judge that produces the composite rating. Portions use data from The GDELT Project under open data terms. This page is informational analysis, not investment advice. See Financial Disclaimer.