New Credit Card Deal For Home Depot
August 4, 2008 · Print This Article
Home Depot is America’s second biggest retail merchant, after Wal-Mart. It also boasts one of the most extensive consumer credit card programs of any US retailer. Recently, Home Depot renewed its agreement with New York financial giant Citigroup, Inc. Citigroup has provided Home Depot with the credit cards that the retailer, in turn, offers to its consumers since 2003.
In exchange for the new 8-year agreement, Citigroup has agreed to pay Home Depot $220 million. According to an anonymous insider, the payment of $220 million is in primarily exchange for the Home Depot’s continued decision to offer Citibank’s MasterCard as part of its line of credit cards. This card, which can be utilized in the manner of a regular MasterCard, will serve to advertise Citibank’s other MasterCard credit cards to the millions of Home Depot shoppers nationwide.
Additionally, Citibank has agreed to lower the percentage of the profits it will demand from Home Depot’s Citibank-provided private-label credit card. In the past, Home Depot was paying between $0.02 and $0.04 for every dollar of credit it earned from customers using its private-label card. Following the new agreement, Home Depot will only pay between $0.01 and $0.015 per every dollar of credit.
Approximately 30% of Home Depot’s $77.4 billion (as of 2007) in annual sales goes through the store’s Citibank-provided private-label card.
The analysts at Lehman Brothers predict that Home Depot stands to earn over $200 million more per year as a result of the lower percentages of the retailer’s credit-card profits that will go on to Citibank. Lehman Brothers predicts that this deal–scheduled to come into effect at the beginning of 2009– could cause Home Depot investors’ profits to increase by between $0.08 and $0.25 per share.
In his written report on Home Deport, Michael Lasser of Lehman Brothers concluded that, “we think the company is improving its position for an eventual market rebound… next year, the company’s earnings power should benefit from reduced credit costs.”
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yes boys please let's not get confused hahahah very important that everyone knows I'm at the home depot lol
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Unless you are earning a very large income, you don't need to have $100,000 in available credit. You should close all but 2 or 3 of the credit card accounts. Pick the ones with the most favorable terms, such as the longest grace period, the lowest interest rate, no annual fee, and with the maximum limit at about 15% of your income. I am assuming that since you have a 0 balance, you pay them off each month, which is a very sensible practice that you should continue. Showing poor judgement along with poor luck doesn't help you in the long run. These actions will result in a credit score that won't go as low as it could otherwise.
That’s a good point. Just wanted to add something as a former LB employee, in regards to Lehman, the residential mortgage problems affecting the economy was not lehman’s problem. Our problem was with commercial real estate. One of the members of the congressional committee was trying to say that it was a big problem for lehman directly. They really need to educate themselves on the issue before going out on the witch hunt which they are so obviously on right now. Fuld had to try to explain this.
Maybe your getting too old for such new technology Cristo.
It would seem so wouldn't it? Oh well that kills the "greed is good"mentality. Or should I really say, greed is good for some. Not all.
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I'm not a financial expert, so I can only offer the simplest of explanations, but I am a Canadian living in Taiwan and I see the effects of these quite readily.
I wouldn't call it the effect of those two companies specifically. I would call those milestone events in an economic crisis with the US dollar.
What makes those events a bit special is that while in the recent past, the US Gov has stepped in to help out, those two companies went down comparatively with much less assistance.
An interesting but probably unrelated tidbit is that Lehman was purchased by a company that is receiving a lot of help from the US gov, so it's almost possible that there could have been some private tricks going on there.
The general effect of this is the drop in confidence in the US dollar. Foreign countries/companies/economies are not as interested in holding US dollars because it is dropping/fluctuating heavily and is susceptible to dropping suddenly at any moment (following a 'run on the banks' like in the depression).
Countries whose currencies are pegged to the US dollar can get dragged down. Taiwan's dollar is a good example of this – the value stays relatively constant compared to the US dollar, but compared to other currencies (like the Canadian dollar), it loses ground rapidly.
For Taiwan, this is bad for investment, but good for trade (exporting).
For Canada, this is great for investment (something like a 40% increase against the US dollar in the last 2 or 3 years) but bad for export. In Canada, the housing market is going crazy. My parents' house has doubled in value in the last two years – compared to US dollars, it has tripled. This effect keeps compounding on itself. As the housing market gets stronger, more people want to come in (I know a guy from the Philippines who bought a house in Vancouver and sold it 2 years later for double – 800,000 CAD profit in two years for doing virtually nothing… 800,000 CAD goes a long ways in the Philippines). Hence the Canadian dollar keeps getting stronger still.
Well that's two countries anyhow.
They don't do the work themselves, they subcontract it out. I had them do a ceramic tile floor in my bathroom and was very pleased. Home Depot wants you to be satisfied, so you won't likey get screwed on the price or the quality.
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The way I look at it is this, we loaned the banking industry 700 billion, I hadn’t received timely payments back so I’m declaring that they are late so I’m upping the interest to 30% (legal in my state). I believe that equates to an extra 210 billion in interest per month. Its been a few months now so their debt is really skyrocketing out of control. I’m sending this to collections.
A polo and khakis or jeans would be fine. Don't dress up too much.
When you are actually working you will have to wear a shirt with a collar and jeans (or whatever pants you want, i guess.) Most people wear jeans.. its actually pretty informal. They don't expect you to know what to wear since they teach you that at orientation so its not that big of a deal. Just don't look too sloppy and you'll be fine.
I think all credit cards allow you. I know Bank of America does for sure.
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Space out the applications at least 3 months, 6 might be better. While each application will cause a hard credit pull which will ding your credit, too many within a short period will take a big bite out of your score.
Wow, there are heaps. Great info!
debit and credit cards anyhow. Not ATM cards I don't think. An excellent point.