On the Record · Home Depot
Home Depot competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Home Depot as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Home Depot names
Home Depot’s annual reports for 2023 to 2026 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Home Depot
Companies whose own annual reports name Home Depot as a competitor.
Word for word“Competitors include other premium paint and decorating stores, mass merchandisers, home centers, independent hardware stores, hardware chains and manufacturer-operated direct outlets, such as Sherwin-Williams Company, The Pittsburgh Paints Company, The Home Depot, Inc., Lowe’s Companies, Inc and Farrow & Ball.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“The Home Depot, Inc., through its acquisitions of SRS Distribution Inc. and GMS Inc., and Lowe’s Companies Inc., through its acquisition of Foundation Building Materials, continue to reposition themselves to gain market share in the Pro Segment.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Currently, we compete against a diverse group of retailers, including national mass merchants such as Wal-Mart, Target, Sam’s Club, and Costco, specialized national retailers such as Best Buy, Ashley Furniture and Mattress Firm, home improvement stores such as Lowe’s and Home Depot, and locally-owned regional or independent retail specialty stores that sell furniture and mattresses, home appliances, and consumer electronics similar, and often identical, to those items we sell.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“Includes national home improvement retailers, such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, and local and regional hardware stores.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“The Home Depot and Lowe's are major competitors in relation to our home appliance business, which accounted for approximately 16% of our 2017 , 15% of our 2016 and 15% of our 2015 reported revenues.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“The key national competitors of the Hometown Stores, the Hardware Stores, and the Home Appliance Showrooms are The Home Depot, Lowe’s and Best Buy, as well as Ace Hardware and True Value for the Hardware Stores, and Tractor Supply for the Hometown Stores and the Hardware Stores, all of which offer consumers lines of merchandise that are the same as or similar to lines of merchandise offered by the Hometown Stores, the Hardware Stores, and the Home Appliance Showrooms.” 10-K for 2019
Read from Home Depot’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-18. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.