Dividend investors, who look for a steady stream of growing income, often gravitate to brands with staying power. Home Depot (HD -0.48%), the largest home improvement retailer, and Nike (NKE -4.13%), a leader in athletic apparel, both fit that description.
Those big bath and kitchen remodeling projects home owners may have been thinking about? Some are apparently putting them on hold because of fresh anxiety about the economy.
When large-cap stocks like Advanced Micro Devices Inc. NASDAQ: AMD are soaring 25% and adding $80 billion to their market cap in a single session, who has time to concentrate on the laggards?
The top two market participants, Home Depot (HD -0.04%) and Lowe's (LOW -0.40%) dominate the home improvement retail sector. Although they're competitors, they do have key differences that are important to understand.
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