CLAIM #29750 · The Home Depot Inc (HD) · 2026Q3 earnings call · Nov 18, 2025 · due Jan 31, 2026
“So I'm just going to avoid all the steps in the math and tell you, on a fiscal year perspective, you've got about a 55 basis point impact to gross margin year-over-year, reflecting the ownership of both SRS and GMS and about a 35 basis point impact to operating margin mix, reflecting the year-over-year comparison of those ownership periods of SRS and GMS.”
Richard McPhail · CFO
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“rofile by about 80 basis points of gross margin and about 40 basis points of operating margin. GMS, which was about half the size of SRS is about half the impact. So you've got a pro forma, this is not fiscal year, but a pro forma impact of about 40 basis points of GMS and about 20 basis points -- and about 20 basis points of operating margin for GMS, so 40-20. You add those together, you roughly have a change in our profile with both of them together of 120 basis points of gross margin and 60 basis points of operating margin. Now when you're talking fiscal year 2025, obviously, we have some wonkiness in the comparison periods. We've owned SRS for a full year of 2025, but only owned them a partial year in 2024. We will own GMS for about 5 months in 2025 and own them for no months in 2024. So I'm just going to avoid all the steps in the math and tell you, on a fiscal year perspective, you've got about a 55 basis point impact to gross margin year-over-year, reflecting the ownership of both SRS and GMS and about a 35 basis point impact to operating margin mix, reflecting the year-over-year comparison of those ownership periods of SRS and GMS. We'll clarify this more just one more time when we move forward and in the future, talk about future years. But hopefully, that gives you a little bit more clarity. So I do want to put an asterisk. The jumping off point is our full year guidance, but you also have to include that comparison or rather the full year impacts of GMS next year. Christopher Horvers: Right, offset by a tick of transaction fees. Richard McPhail: That would be correct. Yes. Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Zhihan Ma with Bernstein. Zhihan Ma: I wanted to follow up on the complex Pro and GMS side. So firstly, a short-term question on the $2 billion contribution to sales from GMS this year. I think if we do the math based on the reported numbers last year, kind of implies a high single-digit percen”
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SEC filings for HD ↗ · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2026Q3 earnings call.