Home Depot (HD)

The market may be too distracted by all the recent noise to notice that these stocks are underperforming for all the wrong reasons.

The Benzinga Stock Whisper highlights five stocks seeing increased interest from readers and a look at the potential catalysts driving interest.

This REIT has massive growth potential.

Home improvement retail giant Home Depot (NYSE:HD) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, but sales rose 9.4% year on year to $39.86 billion. Its non-GAAP EPS of $3.56 per share was 0.8% below analysts’ consensus estimates.

Stocktwits users have a 'neutral' view ahead of the earnings report on Thursday.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 6.98%, an 18-week high, up from 6.92% the week before.

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) is often seen as a benchmark for strong businesses, but that doesn’t mean every stock is worth owning. Some companies face significant challenges, whether it’s stagnating growth, heavy debt, or disruptive new competitors.

Home Depot anticipates 2.8% sales growth despite tariff challenges. Supply chain diversification aims to reduce reliance on single-country sourcing.

At the current sales pace, the market reflected 8.1 months of supply in April, down from 9.1 months in March, but still higher than the 7.7-month supply level recorded a year earlier.

"Too big to fail" is how we would describe the megacap stocks in this article today. While they will likely stand the test of time, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows as their scale can limit their ability to find new sources of growth.