• The Home Depot posted fiscal Q2 net earnings of USD 4.8 billion, or USD 4.79 per diluted share, up 4.6% year over year.
• Net sales rose 5.7% from a year earlier to USD 47.9 billion, helped by USD 1.4 billion of incremental sales from GMS.
• Operating income climbed to USD 6.84 billion, while gross margin widened 0.3 percentage points to 33.7%.
• Comparable sales increased 1.7%, as a 2.8% rise in average ticket offset a 1.0% decline in comparable transactions.
• SG&A increased 8.5% to USD 8.4 billion; online sales rose 11% and represented 16.6% of net sales.

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