{"id":100924,"date":"2025-05-14T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100924\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:52:11","slug":"the-london-company-large-cap-strategy-exited-the-home-depot-hd-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100924\/","title":{"rendered":"The London Company Large Cap Strategy Exited The Home Depot (HD) in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The London Company<\/a>, an investment management company, released \u201cThe London Company Large Cap Strategy\u201d first quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here<\/a>. The US equities experienced a correction in the first quarter following two years of robust performance. The portfolio returned 2.4% (2.3%, net) during the quarter compared to a 4.5% increase for the Russell 1000 Index. In addition, you can check the fund\u2019s top 5 holdings to determine its best picks for 2025.<\/p>\n

In its first-quarter 2025 investor letter, The London Company Large Cap Strategy highlighted stocks such as The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD<\/a>). The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) is a home improvement retailer. The one-month return of The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) was 5.50%, and its shares gained 9.72% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On May 13, 2025, The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) stock closed at $373.60 per share with a market capitalization of $371.331 billion.<\/p>\n

The London Company Large Cap Strategy stated the following regarding The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) in its Q1 2025 investor letter:<\/p>\n

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“Exited: The Home Depot, Inc.<\/strong> (NYSE:HD) – Sale reflects a relatively high valuation (18.6x trailing EBITDA) along with a mixed outlook for consumer spending and housing activity. While the aging housing base and stable housing values are a positive for home improvement spending, we note that we already have exposure via Lowe’s and didn’t feel the need to own both companies.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A family selecting a wood and wire closet organization in a home improvement store.<\/p>\n

The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) is not on our list of\u00a030 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds<\/a>. As per our database, 88 hedge fund portfolios held The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) at the end of the fourth quarter which was 82 in the previous quarter. While we acknowledge the potential of The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is as promising as NVIDIA but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In another article<\/a>, we covered The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) and shared the list of best and worst Dow stocks.\u00a0In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q1 2025<\/a> page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.<\/p>\n

READ NEXT:\u00a0Michael Burry Is Selling These Stocks<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0A New Dawn Is Coming to US Stocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Company, an investment management company, released \u201cThe London Company Large Cap Strategy\u201d first quarter 2025 investor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,46833,46834,257,46832,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-100924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-home-depot","12":"tag-investor-letter","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-london-company","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114506520696715876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}