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Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement retailer, operating almost 2,500 superstores in all 50 U.S. states. Home Depot sells items including appliances, tools, and hardware in its stores and online. As of 2026, it employed 472,000 associates, who are known for wearing distinctive orange uniform aprons. To expand beyond stores and e-commerce, Home Depot has invested billions in professional builder and contractor businesses. In 2024, it acquired SRS Distribution, a large distributor of building products. The deal was valued at $18.25 billion and is the largest in the retailer’s history.

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Greetings, and welcome to The Home Depot second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Isabel Janci. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Christine, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Home Depot's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Joining us on our call today are Richard McPhail, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Ann-Marie Campbell, Senior Executive Vice President, and Billy Bastek, Executive Vice President of Merchandising. Following our prepared remarks, the call will be open for questions. Questions will be limited to analysts and investors, and as a reminder, please limit yourself to one question with one follow-up.

If we are unable to get to your question during the call, please call our investor relations department at 770-384-2387. Before I turn the call over to Richard, let me remind you that today's press release and presentations made by our executives includes forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities laws, including, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations and projections.

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the factors identified in the release and in our most recent annual report, Form 10-K, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Today's presentation will also include certain non-GAAP measures, including, but not limited to adjusted operating margin, adjusted diluted earnings per share, and return on invested capital. For a reconciliation of these and other non-GAAP measures to our corresponding GAAP measures, please refer to our earnings press release on our website. Now, let me turn the call over to Richard.

Thank you, Isabel, and good morning, everyone. Before turning to our results, we want to touch on Ted's temporary medical leave of absence, which we announced last week. We wish Ted a quick recovery and appreciate the support that has been shown by so many Home Depot partners. We look forward to Ted's return in a few months, and we will share any material developments as appropriate. Ann and I are supported by an exceptional leadership team and a dedicated board, and together, we are wholly focused on executing our strategy and winning in our market.

Turning to the quarter, sales for the second quarter were $47.9 billion, an increase of 5.7% from the same period last year. Comp sales increased 1.7% from the same period last year, and comps in the U.S. increased 1.3%. Adjusted diluted earnings per share were $4.92 in the second quarter, compared to $4.68 in the second quarter last year. Our second quarter results exceeded our expectations, and our teams did a great job executing throughout a dynamic environment.

Our customers continued to engage in home improvement projects, and throughout the quarter, we saw broad-based demand across the business. in the U.S., our Northern and Western divisions posted positive comps, and Mexico and Canada posted positive comps. While consumer uncertainty and housing affordability continue to pressure demand for larger home improvement projects, we remain focused on what we can control, our strategy of driving our core and culture, delivering a frictionless, interconnected experience, and winning the pro. With that, I'll turn it over to Ann.

Thanks, Richard, and good morning, everyone. Driving our core and culture is at the heart of what we do every day to deliver the best experience for our customers. To do this, we continue to invest in our store experience. Our teams are focused on ensuring on-shelf availability remains at record levels, on introducing new and innovative products, and deploying technology across the stores to enhance the customer experience. This, coupled with all of our investments into our associate experience through technology-enabled tools, makes it easier than ever for associates to serve customers.

We have seen greater associate engagement, better customer satisfaction scores, and stronger sales. A great example of how we're building on the momentum that we're seeing is through the evolution of Magic Apron. In addition to a website, now associates and customers can utilize this application in our aisles to navigate our stores more efficiently, find products within seconds, and ask questions about products and projects to feel more confident in their ability to complete a home improvement project. Customer feedback has been incredibly positive.

In terms of our interconnected experience, we're making progress on a multitude of initiatives, including delivery. We know speed of delivery is important to our customers, and today, for in-stock parcel products, over 65% of our deliveries are same day or next day. We're continuing to get faster. In fact, this month, we launched Express Delivery nationwide with delivery on tens of thousands of products in three hours or less. In addition, we've evolved our appliance delivery model to better serve direct purchases.

We now stock a select assortment of appliances that can reach our customers next day in certain markets. We are seeing a sales lift in these markets and will continue to lean in to broaden these efforts. We are winning with the Pro. Pro positive comp in the quarter, and we saw strong performance across all our pro cohorts. This is being driven by the many investments we have made across our systems, capabilities for pros, product assortment, job lock quantities, delivery, sales teams, and specialized services.

There's more to do, but it is evident that we are serving our pros better than ever, and this partnership with our customers creates a sticky and lasting relationship. In closing, I'd like to thank all of our associates for their hard work this quarter. I'm pleased to announce that based on our first half results, 100% of our stores qualify for Success Sharing, our profit-sharing program for hourly associates. These results were a testament to our investment across the business and our associates' focus on customer service. With that, I'll turn it over to Billy.

Thank you, Ann. Good morning, everyone. I want to start by also thanking all of our associates, supplier, and supply chain partners for their ongoing commitment to serving our customers and communities. As you heard from Richard, our performance during the second quarter exceeded our expectations as customers continued to engage in smaller repair and maintenance projects. In the second quarter, we saw broader engagement with 13 of our 16 merchandising departments posting positive comps, including storage, electrical, hardware, power, plumbing, indoor garden, kitchen, paint, bath, outdoor garden, building materials, flooring, and millwork.

During the second quarter, our comp average ticket increased 2.8% and comp transactions decreased 1%. Big-ticket comp transactions, those over $1,000, were positive 2.4% compared to the second quarter of last year. We were pleased with the performance we saw in portable power and patio. However, larger discretionary projects remain under pressure. During the second quarter, pro posted positive comps and outperformed DIY. We saw strength in DIY across many spring-related categories, including live goods, mulch, soils, hardscapes, storage, patio, and grills.

For pro, we saw strength across many pro-heavy categories like portable power, decking, dimensional lumber, pipe and fittings, fastener, hand tools, and concrete. Turning to total company online comp sales leveraging our digital platforms increased 11% compared to the second quarter of last year. This is the fifth quarter in a row with double-digit year-over-year growth, driven by our ongoing investments across our interconnected platforms. Delivering the best interconnected experience is a key component of our strategy, and our faster delivery speeds are resonating with customers and driving greater engagement. As Ann mentioned, we have made meaningful progress with our delivery speeds.

This progress extends beyond parcel products. For big and bulky products, we've also increased speed of delivery significantly. To put this in perspective, over the last 18 months, we've reduced our delivery lead times approximately 45% in the U.S., which is leading to greater conversion with our customers. Now, approximately 55% of our big and bulky deliveries on products we stock are delivered within two days. Going forward, we will continue to further optimize fulfillment across all of our assets to better serve our customers and enhance the interconnected shopping experience.

During the second quarter, we leaned into products and projects that are resonating with our customers. We focused on innovation, expanded assortments, and reduced friction points, all to deliver a compelling value proposition. For example, we continue to see tremendous success in power. In fact, Q2 was a record-setting sales quarter for portable power tools. As we've mentioned before, we have built a strong competitive advantage with our extensive lineup of battery-powered platforms that allows us to continue to grow share in these categories.

Another category where we continue to see strong performance is storage, as we lean into our branded systems and expanded assortments. Milwaukee PACKOUT, our largest national loyalty brand for pros, has the industry's most versatile and durable modular storage system with solutions for toolboxes, organizers, racks, and many more. These modular units provide our pros with easy access to all their tools at their job site and at their homes. In appliances, we recognize that in the current environment, there is a growing shift towards direct purchases, which is why we have been making advancements in our supply chain capabilities to more easily and quickly get product to the customer.

As a result of our investments, we are now able to provide next-day delivery coverage on key SKUs to nearly 60% of the population. We are encouraged with the positive performance we are seeing in these markets, and will continue to expand population coverage and SKUs throughout the year. In addition, we are expanding our relationship with USG across our business. The Home Depot will be the exclusive launch partner for USG's newest innovation, Sheetrock Brand UltraLight Tough Panels in the big box retail channel. Further solidifying our leadership as the go-to retailer for pro-preferred building materials, this product stands out as the lightest and most durable half-inch panel in the market.

We are also accelerating growth with another key pro exclusive, RUCO joint treatments. RUCO has driven strong pro loyalty with us for decades, and we are excited to expand their product lineup across our stores. As we look ahead to the third quarter, our merchandising organization remains focused on being our customers' advocate for value. This means continuing to provide a broad assortment of best-in-class products that are in-stock and available for our customers when they need it. With that, I'd like to turn the call back over to Richard.

Thanks, Billy. I'll now spend a few minutes on our financial update for the quarter. In the second quarter, total sales were $47.9 billion, an increase of $2.6 billion or 5.7% from last year. During the second quarter, our total company comps were +1.7%, with comps of +1.2% in May, +1.5% in June, and +2.3% in July. Comps in the U.S. were +1.3% for the quarter, with comps of +0.5% in May, +1.2% in June, and +2.2% in July. In the second quarter, we received IEEPA tariff refunds, which reduced our cost of goods sold by $685 million.

While these refunds were received in the second quarter, they are being used to offset unplanned and rising cost pressures throughout the year. In the second quarter, our gross margin was 33.7%, an increase of approximately 25 basis points from the second quarter of last year, which was primarily driven by the benefit from the IEEPA tariff refund, largely offset by incremental cost pressures related to fuel, energy, and other product input costs, as well as a change in mix as a result of the GMS acquisition.

Our underlying gross margin performance was in line with our expectations. During the second quarter, operating expense as a percent of sales increased approximately 45 basis points to 19.4% compared to the second quarter of 2025. Our operating expense performance was in line with our expectations. Our operating margin for the second quarter was 14.3%, compared to 14.5% in the second quarter of 2025. In the quarter, pre-tax intangible asset amortization was $178 million.

Excluding the intangible asset amortization in the quarter, our adjusted operating margin for the second quarter was 14.7%, compared to 14.8% in the second quarter of 2025. Interest and other expense for the second quarter decreased by $26 million-$524 million. In the second quarter, our effective tax rate was 24.5%, compared to 24.2% in the second quarter of fiscal 2025. Our diluted earnings per share for the second quarter were $4.79, compared to $4.58 in the second quarter of 2025. Excluding intangible asset amortization, our adjusted diluted earnings per share for the second quarter were $4.92, an increase of 5.1% compared to the second quarter of 2025.

During the second quarter, we opened three new stores, bringing our total store count to 2,364. At the end of the quarter, merchandise inventories were $26.8 billion, up approximately $2 billion compared to the second quarter of 2025, and inventory turns were 4.5x, down from 4.6x last year. Turning to capital allocation. During the second quarter, we invested approximately $880 million back into our business in the form of capital expenditures.

During the quarter, we paid approximately $2.3 billion in dividends to our shareholders. Computed on the average of beginning and ending long-term debt and equity for the trailing 12 months, return on invested capital was 24.8%, down from 27.2% in the second quarter of fiscal 2025. Now, I will comment on our outlook for fiscal 2026. Our performance during the second quarter exceeded our expectations. We are encouraged with the underlying demand we see in the business, and we are reaffirming our fiscal 2026 guidance.

We expect to continue to grow our market share and for our comp sales to range between flat to 2% growth, with total sales growth of between approximately 2.5% and 4.5%, reflecting the contribution of the GMS acquisition, new stores, new branches, and tuck-in acquisitions. For the year, we expect SRS to deliver mid-single-digit percent organic sales growth. We plan to open approximately 15 new stores and 40-50 new SRS branches. Our gross margin is expected to be approximately 33.1%. Further, we expect operating margin of approximately 12.4%-12.6% and adjusted operating margin of approximately 12.8%-13%.

Our effective tax rate is targeted at approximately 24.3%. We expect net interest expense of approximately $2.3 billion. We expect our diluted earnings per share and adjusted diluted earnings per share to both increase approximately flat to 4% compared to fiscal 2025. We plan to continue investing in our business with capital expenditures of approximately 2.5% of sales for fiscal 2026. We believe that we will continue to grow market share as a result of our competitive advantages and ongoing investments by delivering the best experience in home improvement. Thank you for your participation in today's call. Christine, we are now ready for questions.

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Chuck Grom with Gordon Haskett. Please proceed with your question.

Hey, thanks very much. Good morning. Billy, I was hoping you could comment on the broadening of the category strength in the quarter. I think you called out 13 areas. I guess double-click on where you're seeing the strongest parts of the business and the outlook on the back half.

Yeah. Thanks, Chuck, for the question. Yeah. As I mentioned in the prepared remarks, we saw 13 categories of our 16 positive comp. If you think about the core of our business, electrical, plumbing, hardware, tools both in store and online. We had great performance online. I mentioned the double-digit positive comps.

Those businesses were even greater than the online comp. But really the middle of the store, to put that in context, if you look at our top 20 businesses across the store that drove a positive performance, only three of those 20 were actually in the seasonal business. So we feel really good about what's happening in the middle of the store and certainly much broader-based impact as we mentioned in the prepared remarks.

Okay, that is great. Richard, just on the tariff refund of $685 million, can you speak to how much of that was for inventory that flowed through the P&L in 2Q versus how much was flowed through the P&L in prior quarters? Are you expecting any more refunds to help you in the back half of the year? When we think about next year and the lap of that $685 million, how should we think about that in terms of the gross margin impact?

Yeah. Great. Thank you for the question. Let me give you some numbers to clarify the tariff refunds, and then we will talk about how this works through the year, and then into next year. So we received $730 million in tariff refunds during the quarter. We received all those right around the end of the month of June. Those refunds represent the vast majority of what we would expect to receive for those IEEPA refunds that we filed for. There is an immaterial amount that we expect we may receive in the back half.

Of that $730 million, $685 million reduced our cost of goods sold as they applied to products that had already been sold. The remaining $45 million remains in inventory and will hit the P&L as we turn inventory through the remainder of the year. Let us just talk about the shape of the year, how this impacts the shape of the year, because your question is lapping into next year. So thinking about how they impacted the quarter, the $685 million reduction in COGS was about a 145 basis point gross impact to margin.

As we said in our prepared remarks, those benefits offset increased costs that we have seen in our cost base of about 60 basis points. So you can think about the net benefit of refunds in our P&L being around 85 basis points. Just to tie out the numbers on gross margin real quickly, we also had the mix impact of the GMS and Mingledorff's acquisitions have an impact of about 60 basis points. So net benefit of tariff of 85 basis points, mix impact of 60 basis points. So that gives you the year-over-year increase of about 25 basis points.

Just talking about the nature of refunds, while we received those refunds in the second quarter, we have also experienced unplanned pressure from fuel, energy, and other product input costs that we expect will fully offset the benefit from tariff refunds over the year. If you think about the shape of the P&L, while those refunds are going to go to offset costs in, call it Q2 and Q3, because we book all of the refunds when we receive the cash, you are going to see a little bit of a P&L shift between Q2 and Q3. Billy, maybe just talk about the environment we are in and how we have looked at tariffs.

Yeah. You mentioned, Richard, some of the incremental inputs to what we planned coming into the year. Certainly, we've seen incremental cost pressure related to fuel, energy, other product inputs. You can think of commodities with resin and metals. We didn't have that in our plan as we came into the year. Those are incremental.

The other piece I would mention that maybe gets overlooked is there's been some changes in tariffs incrementally relative to our planning process coming into the year. Section 101 expired in July. It was updated in February, expired in July, and replaced with the Section 301 piece. Those were actually also incremental to what we had forecasted coming into the year. We're doing a great job of offsetting that. The merchant's doing a great job with our supply chain teams, but those are incremental pressures that we did not have as part of our outlook for 2026.

Chuck, just to get back to your question, because we expect the tariff refunds to be fully offset by the incremental cost pressure that Billy called out, we've reaffirmed our guidance for the year. While you might see some lapping next year on a quarterly basis that we'll need to take you through, there shouldn't be a lap from an annual perspective when we head into 2027.

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. Thank you both, and our best to Ted in his recovery. Thanks.

Our next question comes from the line of Scot Ciccarelli with Truist. Please proceed with your question.

Good morning, guys. Two questions. First, just one more clarification on the comments on the cost pressures. Are we to assume an incremental 60 basis points of pressure in 3Q and 4Q, at least relative to initial plan? Then second, while higher rates, which obviously we are seeing in the markets right now, certainly don't help, based on your internal models, do higher rates actually hurt here, or do you think most of the damage has already been done? Thanks.

Sure. Thank you, Scot. I think you should think about this in the way we are thinking about it as tariff refunds are going to offset costs in really a period sort of over Q2 and Q3. I think what we would expect to see is that our gross margin rate, in the fourth quarter, will likely be right around flat compared to last year. So this is sort of a Q2 and Q3 dynamic, which obviously just has a little complication of the timing of the receipt of the refunds. With respect to rates, as we have said over the past few years, housing turnover, just as one point in the economy that we watch, has been at historical lows.

It has never been lower as a percentage of the housing stock. Every time we have seen it hit the sort of 3% of the housing stock changing hands, over history, it has always bounced up relatively quickly. We have seen housing turnover at these low levels for four years now. I do not think that we have seen much volatility from the recent increase in rates. We do know that when we see step downs, we begin to see a little bit of life come into housing, but there is just no sign of an inflection point at this moment.

Our next question comes from the line of Seth Sigman with Barclays. Please proceed with your question.

Great. Good morning, everyone, and wishing Ted a quick recovery from our side too. I wanted to ask about the gap between total comps and The Home Depot U.S. comps. Looks like it was the widest gap in a couple of years. Can you talk a little bit more about that and perhaps separating SRS, what is happening there? Is that business back to positive in terms of comps? Also just the international performance. Thanks so much.

Yes. Look, we were really pleased to see that gap between total company comp in the U.S. First, it reflects FX benefit of about 25 basis points. We also had fantastic performance internationally and at SRS. Ann, maybe let us talk about what we are seeing internationally.

Yeah, no. Both Canada and Mexico out-comped the company, which was fantastic. I know we called out Canada last quarter, but it was great to see the acceleration in Canada. For the half, they just had a fabulous quarter and half where they positive comp in transactions and positive comp in units, which is fantastic. Mexico has just been on this great run, and they continue to be on a great run, and we are just continuing to see just great results from that team as well. This was just not a U.S. performance. This was across the company. Really proud of the entire team, not only in the U.S., but Canada as well, and Mexico.

 Absolutely. SRS comped above the company average this quarter. They were positive comp in all verticals. It looks like they are taking significant shares. We could not be more pleased with that acquisition and how we are all working together.

Okay, great. Thank you for that. As we think about the comp guidance for the full year, I think it implies a pretty wide range of scenarios for the back half. The midpoint looks like it would be similar to the first half, but below the Q2 trend, despite easier comparison. I guess, how are you thinking about the scenarios and anything else, any other building blocks to think about the comps for second half of the year? Thanks.

Sure. Well, look, we are really encouraged by the performance by our teams this quarter. It exceeded our expectations for the quarter. We have had a start to Q3 that is really consistent with the demand we saw in the second quarter. But we know what the environment is out there. We have a lot of volatility. As Billy said, we have unplanned cost pressure that is significant in the market, and we have frozen housing conditions. With all of that, we are focused on controlling what we can control. We do think that the range remains appropriate. We think that obviously, the further we go into the year, the extremes of the range become less likely. But we are focused on controlling what we can control.

Our next question comes from the line of Michael Lasser with UBS. Please proceed with your question.

Good morning. Thank you so much for taking my question. We're all trying to figure out how much of The Home Depot's performance in the second quarter was a reflection of the actions that the company is taking any idiosyncratic to The Home Depot versus re-engagement from the consumer in home improvement. With that being said, if you could slice and dice it maybe two simplistic ways. One, is your comp accelerated from the first to the second quarter by 110 basis points?

Again, simplistically. How much of that do you think was accelerated market share gains versus the home improvement market accelerating a touch from the first to the second quarter? Second, are you seeing evidence of the consumer re-engaging through things like app downloads, increased quotes through the bedroom, and/or more usage of the Magic Apron that gives you some degree of confidence that the bottom has been reached in home improvement demand and it's going to get better from here? Thank you.

Thanks, Michael. Ann and Billy are going to bring this to life, but the headline here for us this quarter is that our teams took share in a difficult environment. We're confident the investments that we've made are positioning us like no one else in the market. When we look out at the broader market, all the data that we see, what we hear from other constituents in the market is that there remains tremendous pressure on our sector and on anyone connected with housing. When we look at our results with that overlay, we're confident we're taking share. It all starts in the stores. Ann, maybe let's just talk about what we're doing.

Yeah. No. Thanks. Michael, we're seeing customers respond just so positively to the initiatives we're driving to further empower our associates and deliver great customer service. To be honest, it's simple, but it's important. It starts with the right product on the shelves in the quantities and specification the customer wants. We have been on this journey to improve our on-shelf availability, and it remains at record levels. Why is that so important for us? This is foundational to driving great customer service.

For me and for the team, a high level of operational reliability, especially as stores play a more important role in delivery and fulfillment of our interconnected experience. But when you think about connectivity with our digital assets, it's better and faster fulfillment. Often, it's about having the best products and brands the customers want. Billy and team have just been laser focused on driving innovation across the board, and their continuous effort, it's just been fantastic. So, Billy, innovation wins every day, and your merchants are just fabulous.

Well, we appreciate that. No, Michael, it's a good question. We ask ourselves that a lot. We're probably tougher critics on ourselves than anybody, actually. But there's a number of different factors. I would go back to my prepared remarks. I mean, we are really pleased with our results, and we saw great strength across our entire business. There's certainly still a lot of pressure, obviously, on larger projects, discretionary finance projects. I mean, that's a continued narrative that we're still seeing in the business. But we just announced Express Delivery today nationwide across all stores that Ann-Marie talked about.

A number of different things, I mentioned big and bulky, and a lot of those come from out of our stores. So our store associates, our supply chain associates are doing an incredible job, and we're just trying to meet customers where they are. It all starts in the middle of that store. So, we're really thrilled with the performance and the work that the teams are doing, and hats off to the merchant group and all the other work they're doing with our vendor partners.

You called out Michael Magic Apron, and Jordan is in the room, and I think that is a really important enabler when we think about taking friction out of the experience, both for the associate and customer. So Jordan, the team have just had fantastic feedback across the Board. You want to kind of lean into just the Magic Apron components?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Michael, you referenced online, and to Billy's comments, online grew 11% in the quarter, and we had an increase in traffic and an increase in conversion. You referenced the app. The app was our highest growth surface on all of our digital surfaces, and that was exciting. That's ahead of the planned refresh that we told you we've got coming in the back half, which is great. Then on Magic Apron, we're getting millions of questions per month now on Magic Apron. It's continued to grow. It's been a great tool for our customers. We've had great feedback.

Ann's references this morning were really to a more localized version of Magic Apron that understands the store context and where you are in the store because the nature of your questions and the nature of the help that we can give you is better if we understand, hey, you're in this store. Well, let's talk about the inventory that's in this store first, so on. So really excited about the engagement digitally for sure.

Hey, Jordan, while we're on it, we've made a lot of investments, and Billy called out Express. Maybe just we had an exciting release this morning.

Yeah. We did put out a press release this morning on Express Delivery. I would say there, we have been working for the past couple of years on building the fastest fulfillment home improvement, and that has been a joint effort across merchandising stores, supply chain, technology. We have talked to you about Ship from Best Location as being a technology that we have leveraged to really bring all of the assets together for fast delivery. As Billy referenced, we are 65% now same day, next day on parcel that we stock and 55% two-day on big and bulky.

This morning, what we announced is Express. We have had this in some markets for several months, but we just announced a nationwide rollout. This is on homedepot.com. A customer can pay a small flat fee and get delivery within three hours. Now, the majority of those deliveries are actually happening in less than one  hour, and so we will continue to work that promise time down to customers in the months ahead, but super excited about that.

You could be a homeowner working in the yard. You need one more bag of seed or one more bag of fertilizer to finish, get a quick delivery. You could be a pro on the job site, need some plumbing or other products, and we are really excited about what that does for customers to add on to our broader delivery speed efforts.

Thank you for all that helpful information. My follow-up question is on the gross margin. There is some discussion in the market this morning around did The Home Depot miss the consensus profitability forecast for the second quarter if one were to exclude the tariff refund? With that being said, Richard, if you could walk us through the factors that led to 117 basis points of gross margin pressure, excluding the tariff refund in the second quarter, that would be super helpful to mentioning what is going to be ongoing versus what is one-time in nature. Thank you.

Sure. Look, Michael, so I first want to talk about our consistent ability to deliver results and maintain stable gross margin, and we will come back to that. If you look at 2025, let us take 2025 as an example. We had a significantly different cost environment during the year than we expected when we entered 2025. If you look at our results, we hit our gross margin plan on the button if you put acquisition mix impact aside. I would say, in fact, the history of Billy and his team over the last five or so years is that we have had unprecedented volatility in our cost environment, and yet we have delivered year-after-year.

What tariff refunds allowed us to do was offset increased costs in our environment, and it allowed us to maintain value in the market. If you think about it, tariff refunds are a market-born benefit. They are not unique to The Home Depot. You would expect when you see market-born benefits or market-born pressures, we are using those benefits to offset costs. The market is seeing that in the form of values that have been maintained through the quarter in the face of a pressured cost environment.

Just going through the you called out the math, I will just call it around 120 basis point pressure, 60 basis points of that is in the form of increased cost that we were able to offset with tariff refunds. The other 60 basis points was simply the mix impact of GMS and Mingledorff's. Recall that we acquired GMS in September of 2025, and that is just a lap of GMS not being on our books in Q2 of last year. I am confident, and Billy is confident had we not had tariff refunds, we would have exceeded our expectations for the quarter regardless. It just came in a different form.

Our next question comes from line of Kate McShane with Goldman Sachs. Please proceed with your question.

Hi. Good morning. Thanks for taking our question. We wanted to focus our question on ticket. We know this is one of your stronger comps, but it did appear all ticket led. Can you just speak to the dynamics within ticket and just how much was from same SKU inflation that you may have seen during the quarter and anything else that may have contributed during Q2?

Yeah. Thanks, Kate, for the question. There was some same SKU, AUR, as we have talked about previously on calls based on some of the cost inputs and so forth. We also saw categories, as I mentioned, refrigeration, portable power, patio, larger ticket items. You think single purchase items, not financed, but think more single purchase items that really help drive that as well. We had some inter-category mix with people trading up inside of categories. Then you have kind of mix as part of that, just Q2 being the season that it is and selling more riders is one example. But really think of single purchases being the outsized impact, as I mentioned, our comps of over $2,500.

Okay. Thank you, and just a follow-up question to that. I know in an answer to another question, you talked about the extremes of the comp. But if that ticket were to hold for the rest of the year and traffic were to get slightly better, would not we be kind of at the higher end to maybe above the highest end? And what would that mean, and what would the scenario be in which we could see that?

Well, that is certainly, yeah, Kate, that is certainly the math of it, as you mentioned, for sure. There is still so much volatility, as Richard mentioned, that we think we gave the prudent guidance, and we will be back at the end of Q3 and give a broader view for the end of the year.

Our next question comes from the line of Christopher Horvers with JPMorgan. Please proceed with your question.

Thanks, and good morning, everybody. Following up on the underlying demand of the business, there are always a lot of weather impacts in the first half of the year. How do you look at the monthly performance during 2Q given the softer start where weather probably hurt, but you also accelerated stacks in July.

As we try to tease out the right underlying trend, how do you think about that? Related to that, on the SRS side, I think SRS comped below the company average in the first half. I think they were up in 2Q, down in 1Q. Give that mid-single digit comp expectation, does the gap between the U.S. and the total comp actually widen in the back half of the year, given it looks like SRS becomes more accretive to the total?

Yeah, Chris, it's Billy. Let me take the first part, and then we'll circle back on the SRS piece. As it relates to the monthly cadence, and you mentioned some of the weather pieces, there's actually just two really small pieces that drove that. In 2025, we typically get one week a year in the country that has significant heat. It's as simple as this. In 2025, that happened at the end of June, so that would have been in our period five number. In 2026, this past quarter, that happened in the July comp. That shift in and of itself would have normalized both the June and July comps.

I'll just go one step further as it relates to May, and obviously you have the spring portion there that's heavily driven by the north. Week 14, which obviously would have been our first week of the quarter, we saw significantly bad weather everywhere across the country. When you extract just that week out from May was literally the exact same comp performance as we had in June and July when you just do the offset for AC. Very consistent across the board. As I mentioned earlier, only three of our 20 top classes of business were seasonally related for the balance of the quarter as well.

As far as SRS goes, it is true that they have accelerated through the year. In the back half of 2025, we saw the least amount of storm activity in many years, and SRS was pressured by the lack of that activity, and you could actually see that in statistics that are published out in the market. I think shingle shipments, Billy, were down 27, 29%-

...something like that in the fourth quarter.

But look, we're early in the second half, and we'll see how that all pans out. We do expect that SRS will deliver mid-single digit organic growth for the year. I think it's also important to point out things that we're excited about. It's not just SRS by itself, but how all of this is coming together. Look, when you talk about the Pro, it really starts in the stores. When we think about SRS, Ann, maybe let's talk about what we're seeing within the center of QuoteCenter.

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