Letter to the Editor: What’s Home Depot’s Growth Strategy?

Dear Editor:

I would like to disagree with MDM’s editorial on Home Depot (MDM Jan. 10, 2007) – on several levels.

1) The job of company management, within certain limits, is to maximize shareholder value. HD stock was over $43 in 2000. According to the inflation calculator provided (on the Web) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that adjusts (for inflation) to about $50 in 2006. I would guess it will adjust another dollar higher in 2007 money, so make it $51.

Essentially, HD paid Bob Nardelli more than $450 million over six years to go backwards. The spending power of the money invested in HD stock by shareholders who bought the stock the day he was named Big Cheese DECLINED. You cite Nardelli’s accomplishments. If he’s not responsible for …

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Dear Editor:

I would like to disagree with MDM’s editorial on Home Depot (MDM Jan. 10, 2007) – on several levels.

1) The job of company management, within certain limits, is to maximize shareholder value. HD stock was over $43 in 2000. According to the inflation calculator provided (on the Web) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that adjusts (for inflation) to about $50 in 2006. I would guess it will adjust another dollar higher in 2007 money, so make it $51.

Essentially, HD paid Bob Nardelli more than $450 million over six years to go backwards. The spending power of the money invested in HD stock by shareholders who bought the stock the day he was named Big Cheese DECLINED. You cite Nardelli’s accomplishments. If he’s not responsible for …

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