Home Depot discloses errors tied to stock options
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Retailer Home Depot Inc.  Inc. said on Wednesday a review found that for annual stock option grants and certain quarterly option grants from 1981 through November 2000, the stated grant date was earlier than the actual time the grants were approved by a board committee.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc.  on Tuesday cut its 2007 earnings outlook, citing weakness in the U.S. housing market, and said it was launching a tender offer for 250 million shares.
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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 14--Congressional investigators are questioning Hewlett-Packard CEO  Mark Hurd's sale of stock options that gave him $1.37 million in gains, 15  days before the company's controversial boardroom-leak investigation became  public.
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The real-estate investment trust recently bought an options position that equaled 4.3 percent of Sears, Roebuck shares - and announced that it had done so even though it wasn&#39;t required by law.
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As previously announced, KB Home's past stock option grant practices are  being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The  Department of Justice is also looking into these practices but has  informed KB Home that it is not a target of this investigation.
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A new study estimates that the stock options backdating scandal may cost shareholders hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Home improvement retailer Home  Depot Inc.  said on Wednesday it decided to repurchase  $22.5 billion in stock and risk a lower credit rating instead  of maintaining its current capital structure.
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Home Depot Inc.  on Friday said in three  instances before December 2000, its stock-option grant price  was lower than the market price, which resulted in an  unrecorded expense of less than &#36;10 million for the period.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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As the credit markets tighten, some investors fret that the renegotiated deal for Home Depotâs wholesale supply unit may be an omen for other buyouts.
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U.S. stock futures slipped on Tuesday as disappointing results from Dow component Home Depot Inc.  overshadowed news of several major deals, including Sirius Satellite Radio's  plan to buy rival XM Satellite Radio  for $4.6 billion.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot  Inc.  on Tuesday said it would repurchase $22.5 billion  in stock and sell its supply division to three private equity  firms for $10.3 billion as it refocuses on its core retail  business.
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Home Depot Inc  raised its fiscal-year earnings forecast slightly on Monday after the home-improvement retailer agreed to buy back 289.3 million shares of its common stock for $10.7 billion.
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KB Home, the No. 5 U.S. home builder,  said on Friday the Justice Department was looking into past  stock options practices at KB, but added the agency said KB  Home was not a target of the investigation.
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Home Depot, the home improvement retailer, said yesterday that an internal investigation found that for 19 years the company ÂroutinelyÂ backdated option grants to benefit employees and had unrecorded expenses of about $200 million related to its grant practices.
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The failure to expense stock options is causing distortions and inefficiencies in U.S. labor and capital markets.
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Stock futures rose on Wednesday, with Home Depot Inc.'s  plan for a $22.5 billion share buyback set to underpin demand for equities while investors await a batch of earnings reports, including Morgan Stanley's .