Image from Pixabay For questions about this article or underlying research, email help@trefis.com. Investors pay 22.3 times earnings for Home Depot (HD) stock. That valuation is higher than for its closest rival, Lowe’s, or for Amazon, but lower than for Walmart or Costco. Among these five large retailers, Home Depot retains the highest share of

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