Home Depot (The) vs Booking Holdings
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World's largest home improvement retailer; $159.5B FY2024 revenue; $18.25B SRS Distribution acquisition expands Pro specialty distribution by $50B TAM; Pro now ~50% of revenues.
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The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement retailer, founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Ron Brill, and Pat Farrah in Atlanta, Georgia, and now headquartered in Atlanta and trading on NYSE (HD). The company operates approximately 2,340 stores across the United States, Canada, and Mexico and generated approximately $159.5 billion in total revenues for fiscal year 2024 (ending January 2025) under CEO Ted Decker. The strategic anchor of 2024 was the completed $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution—a leading professional roofing, pool, and landscaping products distributor—which dramatically expands Home Depot's reach into the professional contractor market and extends its addressable market by an estimated $50 billion in professional specialty trade distribution.
Norwalk CT online travel (NASDAQ: BKNG) at $23.74B 2024 revenue (+11%), $166B gross bookings; $20B buyback authorized Jan 2025, 10% dividend increase, Booking.com dominant in European accommodations competing with Expedia and Airbnb.
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Booking Holdings Inc. is a Norwalk, Connecticut-based online travel platform — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: BKNG) as an S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary component — operating the world's largest portfolio of online travel brands including Booking.com (global accommodations leader), Priceline (US discount travel), Agoda (Asia-Pacific travel), KAYAK (metasearch), OpenTable (restaurant reservations), and Rentalcars.com across 220+ countries and territories through approximately 24,800 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Booking Holdings reported $23.74 billion in revenue (up 11% year-over-year), $5.88 billion in net income, and $166 billion in gross bookings — with Q4 2024 room nights growing 13% and gross bookings up 17% year-over-year. The company maintains a market capitalization exceeding $167 billion as of 2025. In January 2025, Booking Holdings authorized a $20 billion stock repurchase program and increased its quarterly dividend 10% to $9.60 per share, reflecting strong free cash flow generation. CEO Glenn Fogel has led the company since 2017, overseeing both pandemic recovery and the subsequent travel demand surge. Booking.com's accommodation inventory of millions of properties (hotels, vacation rentals, apartments, villas) across 220+ countries represents the broadest accommodation distribution platform in the global travel market.
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