Retirement Stock Portfolio: 5 Safe Consumer Stocks to Consider

1. The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 89

Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) operates as a home improvement retailer. It is one of the major safe consumer stocks for a retirement stock portfolio. On October 31, Citi analyst Steven Zaccone maintained a Buy rating on The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) stock and lowered the price target to $340 from $348, noting that macro fears are high for hardline retail coverage heading into the third quarter earnings season. The company has an impressive dividend profile stretching back close to two decades. 

Among the hedge funds being tracked by Insider Monkey, Camas, Washington-based firm Fisher Asset Management is a leading shareholder in The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) with 8.2 million shares worth more than $2.25 billion.

In its Q1 2022 investor letter, Diamond Hill Capital, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) shares underperformed as continued solid fundamental results were outweighed by concerns about the impact rising mortgage rates may have on the housing market and general inflationary pressures potentially leading to a consumer spending slowdown. We view the long-term prospects and multi-year fundamental outlook as unchanged.”

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