Home Depot earnings, revenues beat estimates

The Home Depot reported Q2 earnings of 4.81 billion, or $4.53 per share, from $4.33 billion ($4.02) in Q2 2020. Those earnings exceeded analyst expectations of $4.44 per share. Revenues rose by 8.1 percent to $41.12 billion, from $38.05 billion in the comparable period of 2020. Wall Street forecasts were just $40.79 billion. U.S. same-store sales growth slowed in the quarter. Those sales were up by 3.4 percent, after a 25 percent increase a year earlier.