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Home Improvement Stores Industry

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Sector	Consumer Durables
Related Industries	Appliances, Electronic Equipment, Home Furnishing Stores, Home Furnishings & Fixtures, Housewares & Accessories, Jewelry Stores, Photographic Equipment & Supplies, Recreational Vehicles.
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Stocks in Home Improvement Stores

• Builders FirstSource

• Building Materials Holding

• Home Depot, Inc.

• Lowe's Companies

• Lumber Liquidators

• Regal Life Concepts

Home Improvement Stores Upgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
09/23/2009	LOW	FBR Capital	Market Perform	Outperform
08/25/2009	LOW	Morgan Stanley	Equalweight	Overweight
08/13/2009	LOW	FBR Capital	Outperform	Market Perform
05/13/2009	HD	Citigroup	Hold	Buy

Home Improvement Stores Downgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
09/25/2009	LOW	Raymond James	Strong Buy	Outperform
07/17/2009	LL	Goldman Sachs	Buy	Neutral
05/15/2009	BLDR	SunTrust	Buy	Neutral Builders FirstSource
05/11/2009	LOW	Bernstein	Outperform	Market Perform

Home Improvement Stores New Coverages

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Rating
09/15/2008	LOW	Cowen & Co	Underperform
09/15/2008	HD	Cowen & Co	Neutral
09/03/2008	HD	Jesup & Lamont	Hold
09/03/2008	LOW	Jesup & Lamont	Buy

Home Improvement Stores Earnings

Date	Ticker	Actual	Expected	Prev Yr Qtr
08/18/2009	HD	0.64	0.59	0.71
08/17/2009	LOW	0.51	0.54	0.64
08/05/2009	LL	0.25	0.23	0.22
07/23/2009	BLDR	-0.31	-0.46	-0.37
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Stock of the Day

The Home Improvement Stores Industry's Lowe's (LOW) was InvestorGuide.com's Stock of the Day on 8/17/2009.
Lowe's Earnings Continue to Struggle
The housing market may be improving, but home-improvement retailers are still not out of the woods yet. Lowe's reported on Monday that its second-quarter profits fell by 19.1 percent as consumers continued to delay house projects, while uncertainty remains in the fragile market. The company has seen its share of ups and downs this year, but this recession has kept earnings mostly negative. Why is the retailer still having a hard time beating Wall Street's expectations? Can the company withstand another quarter of lagging numbers? Read more

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