1
A. Company Information
A1. Company Information
Identify the company’s basic information, including each of the following:
Company’s name The Home Depot, Inc.
Company’s date of formation 1978
Industry in which the company operates Home Improvement Retailer
Company’s size in terms of annual sales $78,812,000,000
Company’s size in terms of total assets $40,518,000,000
Company’s size in terms of employees (all full-
340,000
and part-time)
The aggregate market value of the common stock
of the Registrant held by non-affiliates of the
Registrant on August 4, 2013, was $115.0 billion.
Company’s size in terms of total market value
The number of shares outstanding of the
Registrant’s common stock as of March 10, 2014,
was 1,381,350,137 shares.
The company is headquartered in Atlanta,
Georgia with stores set up throughout the United
Location of company headquarters, including the States, and includes the commonwealth of
states and countries in which it operates Puerto Rico as well as the territories of the US
Virgin Islands and Guam. They also have stores in
Canada and Mexico.
A2. Customers and Suppliers
Customers:
(1) Do-It-Yourself (DIY)
(2) Do-It-For-Me (DIFM)
(3) Professional Customers
Identify the company’s top three customers and
Suppliers: (*Must own at least 51% of the
suppliers.
business to partner with Home Depot, Inc.)
(1) Non-Merchandising Suppliers
(2) Merchandising Suppliers
(3) Installment Providers
A3. Financing
, Task 2: Home Depot, Inc. 3
Identify the company’s sources of financing. Home Depot, Inc. mainly depends on loans and
shareholders of their stocks for funding. Their
total Stockholders equity is $12.52 billion. They
have a cash flow from the proceeds of the sale of
commons stocks, which is $241 million. They
have long term loans in the form of senior notes
totaling $14.72 billion plus current installments of
$33 million, for a total debt obligation of $14.69
billion. They have a cash flow of 5.2 billion from
the net of discount proceeds of their long-term
borrowings. In the fiscal year of 2013, they are
not using their credit program, which are
commercial paper of 2 billion authorized and a