The Home Depot Declares Second Quarter Dividend of 22.5 Cents

ATLANTA, Aug. 20  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Home Depot , the world's largest home improvement retailer, today announced that its board of directors declared a second quarter cash dividend of 22.5 cents per share. The dividend is payable on September 17, 2009 to shareholders of record on the close of business on September 3, 2009. This is the 90th consecutive quarter the Company has paid a cash dividend.

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The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,241 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. In fiscal 2008, The Home Depot had sales of $71.3 billion and earnings from continuing operations of $2.3 billion. The Company employs more than 300,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. 

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