HOME DEPOT, INC. vs WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC., two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Home Depot is the $346.7B home-improvement warehouse, keeping 8.41% of sales and paying a 2.64% dividend, with modest debt at 0.25. Williams-Sonoma is a $28.7B home-furnishings brand keeping 13.81%, a good deal more per dollar, and carrying no net debt. The furniture seller trades pricier at 26.82 times earnings against Home Depot's 24.72, and returns less in dividends at 1.1% but similar free cash, 3.81% to 4.13%. Both sell into the home, one the raw materials and tools, the other the finished rooms. The margin gap reflects branded furnishings versus commodity building supplies moved at enormous volume.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | HD | WSM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $343.37 | $221.72 |
| Market cap | $342.0B | $26.6B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +8.2% | +33.2% |
| P/E | 24.4 | 24.9 |
| P/B | 24.65 | 14.22 |
| P/S | 2.05 | 3.37 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.2 | 17.6 |
| Revenue growth | +2.2% | +1.8% |
| Gross margin | 33.0% | 44.0% |
| Operating margin | 11.9% | 16.2% |
| Net margin | 8.4% | 13.8% |
| Return on equity | 101.0% | 58.2% |
| Return on assets | 13.0% | 21.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 89.7% | 58.7% |
| FCF yield | 4.2% | 4.1% |
| Dividend yield | 2.7% | 1.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.25 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.04 | 1.33 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.14 | 7.26 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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