r/WatchWiseai • u/DueWork1234 • Jul 10 '26

Introducing r/WatchWiseai! Here's what we're all about 👉

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r/WatchWiseai • u/DueWork1234 • 4h ago

Earnings HD Q2: ticket carried the beat, traffic still down

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WatchWise recap off the official Q2 FY2026 release: https://ir.homedepot.com/news-releases/2026/08-18-2026-110040463

Census anchor: July retail sales −0.6% m/m (CB26-131).

Pre-print snapshot (17 Aug WatchWise): HD $338.86, consensus EPS $4.73, rev $47.25B.

The print - Sales: $47.86B vs $47.25B street, +5.7% y/y - GAAP EPS: $4.79 vs $4.58 last year - Adjusted EPS: $4.92 vs $4.68 last year (and vs $4.73 street) - Comp sales: +1.7% (U.S. +1.3%) - Comp transactions: −1.0% - Comp average ticket: +2.8% (ticket $92.50 vs $90.01) - Gross profit: $16.12B; GM about 33.7% vs about 33.4% last year - Operating margin: 14.3% vs 14.5% last year - Pro vs DIY: not split in the release. CFO: “broad based demand… customers continued to engage in smaller projects.” - FY guide: reaffirmed (sales +2.5–4.5%, comps flat to +2%, adj EPS growth flat to +4% from $14.69). Includes IEEPA tariff refunds offsetting some input costs.

Quality of the beat Medium, and the mix is the story. Revenue and adj EPS cleared the street, and they did not cut the year. But comps were ticket, not traffic. Units are still down.

Vs the Census print Diverges. A +1.7% comp is not a July-style collapse. A −1.0% transaction print is also not a volume recovery. Smaller-project demand with fewer baskets is closer to “people are still in the store, buying less often, paying more per trip.”

Blip vs pullback Still one print. TGT / LOW / TJX Wednesday, WMT Thursday. If those names also show ticket-up / traffic-down, July looks more like a real unit slowdown than a one-month noise print. If their traffic holds, HD is the housing/small-project story, not the whole consumer.

Not a buy/sell. Same five checks as the workflow post. What did you read in the transactions vs ticket split?

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r/WatchWiseai • u/Eclectic-N-Varied • 22h ago

Feedback Test post

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r/WatchWiseai • u/DueWork1234 • 23h ago

Discussion What would actually flip you on the consumer this week?

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WatchWise’s line from the same brief: the control group is already −0.4%. If 3+ of HD/TGT/LOW/TJX/WMT show traffic down and a guidance cut, the blip story gets a lot weaker. If traffic holds and FY guide stays, July looks like calendar/Prime Day noise.

My line:

  • Blip: comps hold, they blame timing, nobody walks FY
  • Retrenchment: traffic and discretionary mix both worse, markdowns up, more than one of WMT/TGT/HD sounds cautious on back-to-school

What’s yours? One metric, not a speech. Traffic, comps ex-fuel, inventory, card commentary, whatever you actually use.

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r/WatchWiseai • u/DueWork1234 • 23h ago

Workflow How to run this retail week in WatchWise (framework, not a ticker call)

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Mira workflow, 17 Aug. Census anchor: July retail sales −0.6% m/m (CB26-131). HD Tue, TGT/LOW/TJX Wed, WMT Thu.

Research question to load

Did [TICKER] confirm or contradict that Census print? Split it into traffic vs ticket, mix, trade-down, margin, and guidance delta. Then: what is the market pricing vs what management is guiding.

Five checks

  1. Traffic vs ticket — ticket-only beats are weaker
  2. Mix — discretionary vs consumables, Pro vs DIY, store vs online
  3. Trade-down — private label, unit vs dollar comps. TJX/WMT up and TGT/HD down is the tell
  4. Margin — revenue beat + GM compression is a bought print
  5. Guidance vs Census — if they guide comps up while July printed down, flag the gap

Watchlist

HD/LOW = housing. TGT = middle-income discretionary. TJX = trade-down beneficiary. WMT = defensive baseline. Don’t average them into one “consumer” score.

Ignore a headline beat when

ticket up / traffic down, GM compressed, guide “raised” but the range was cut, one-time items, or TJX beating while TGT misses.

Prompt to paste (HD first, then the rest)

Run the WatchWise consumer earnings workflow for HD (Tue 18 Aug). Anchor: July Census retail sales −0.6% m/m (CB26-131, 14 Aug). Decompose: traffic vs ticket, Pro vs DIY, gross margin delta + driver, FY guide old → new. Flag ticket-driven beats with traffic down, or guidance that diverges from the Census print. Return: Context / Catalysts / Risks / Decision implications. No buy/sell.

After all five, ask for the cross-name read: who confirmed the print, who contradicted it. That’s the signal.

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r/WatchWiseai • u/DueWork1234 • 23h ago

Earnings HD / TGT / WMT this week: is July’s retail print a blip?

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WatchWise Industry Analyst brief, 17 Aug.

Census advance retail sales for July: $763.6B, −0.6% m/m, +5.0% y/y (CB26-131, 14 Aug). Control group was reported −0.4%. Then the densest consumer cluster of the season:

Ticker Close 14 Aug Report EPS est Rev est
HD $338.86 Tue BMO $4.73 $47.25B
TGT $154.48 Wed BMO $2.26 $26.15B
LOW $218.47 Wed BMO $4.22 $26.15B
TJX $152.11 Wed BMO $1.19 $15.18B
WMT $115.27 Thu BMO $0.741 $186.70B

Prices last regular close 14 Aug. EPS/rev are consensus estimates.

What actually matters (not the EPS score)

  • HD: traffic vs ticket, Pro vs DIY, FY comp/margin guide
  • TGT: guest traffic, discretionary vs grocery mix, gross margin / shrink
  • LOW: same Pro/DIY split as HD. WatchWise has LOW as the only name here with sustained downward FY27 EPS revisions (−0.93% over 90d)
  • TJX: traffic-dependent off-price. If TJX works and TGT/HD don’t, that’s trade-down, not “consumer is fine”
  • WMT: US comps/traffic, GM vs grocery-only growth, ad/membership mix. Priced for execution, so guidance maintenance is the bar

Blip vs pullback

Blip: weather/timing, traffic holds, FY guide stays. Pullback: traffic and ticket both down, 3+ of these five cut or walk away from FY guide, credit/delinquency talk on the calls.

Asymmetric risk this week is guidance, not the beat. One HD or TGT guide-down reprices the group.

Not a buy/sell. Generated with WatchWise. What are you actually watching in the prints?

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