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What has to happen in Other - SRS specialty trade distribution

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Consolidated fair value $330.79 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $6.71B 12% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $5.17B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The CFO's own thesis, and it is a mean-reversion argument about a variable Home Depot does not control. Housing turnover has never been a smaller share of the housing stock and it has sat there for four years, roughly twice as long as any prior episode. Richard McPhail's historical claim is that every time turnover has reached about 3% of the stock changing hands it has bounced back relatively quickly. If it does, the ticket-led comp finally acquires the volume it has been missing for six quarters and Primary's -0.22% quarterly transaction drift inverts rather than merely flattening. This case puts the weight where the thesis does - on traffic: +0.45pp a quarter on Primary against the bull case's +0.15pp, a smaller +0.3pp on Other, 25bp and 40bp of margin, and today's 15.33x multiple held rather than compressed to 14x. What it does not achieve is a fair value above the share price - even with the unfreeze and no multiple compression it lands just under $337.43 - and it is not evidence of anything: no filing forecasts a turnover recovery, and the CFO said in the same breath that there is no sign of an inflection point.

Other - SRS specialty trade distribution

Basis quarter$5.05B
Final quarter$6.71B
Implied CAGR+6%
Final revenue mix12%

The 'Other' line in the segment note: five SRS operating segments - roofing and building products, interior and construction products, landscape, pool and HVAC - none individually large enough to be reportable under Topic 280. It is the entire growth story. Other net sales went from nil before 18 June 2024 to $5,055M in the basis quarter, 10.6% of the company, and it is what turned +1.7% comparable sales into +5.7% total sales. It was built by acquisition - SRS in 2024, GMS for $5.1bn in September 2025, Mingledorff's for about $1.1bn in May 2026 - and management now guides it organically: mid-single-digit percent organic sales growth plus 40 to 50 new branches this year.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $3.89B Reported
2025 Q4 $3.14B Estimated
2026 Q1 $4.00B Reported
2026 Q2 $5.05B Reported
Roofing and building products (approximately 63% of Other net sales when last disclosed, fiscal 2025 Q1)Interior and construction products (GMS, from fiscal 2025 Q3)LandscapePoolHVAC products (Mingledorff's, from fiscal 2026 Q2)
Sequential growth +1.4%/qtr decaying toward +0.9% 1.40%/qtr deseasonalised, ~5.7% a year: the mean of the two clean post-GMS sequentials, +0.79% and +1.93%.
Other - SRS specialty trade distribution

Latest: $6.71B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2023Q1 $0.00
2023Q2 $0.00
2023Q3 $0.00
2023Q4 $0.00
2024Q1 $0.00
2024Q2 $1.27B
2024Q3 $2.93B
2024Q4 $2.20B
2025Q1 $2.57B
2025Q2 $3.12B
2025Q3 $3.89B
2025Q4 $3.14B
2026Q1 $4.00B
2026Q2 $5.05B
2026Q3E $4.37B
2026Q4E $3.33B
2027Q1E $4.29B
2027Q2E $5.39B
2027Q3E $4.66B
2027Q4E $3.54B
2028Q1E $4.55B
2028Q2E $5.72B
2028Q3E $4.94B
2028Q4E $3.75B
2029Q1E $4.81B
2029Q2E $6.05B
2029Q3E $5.21B
2029Q4E $3.96B
2030Q1E $5.08B
2030Q2E $6.37B
2030Q3E $5.49B
2030Q4E $4.17B
2031Q1E $5.34B
2031Q2E $6.71B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Nine quarters of disclosed history and five explicit zeros before them. The zeros are real, not padding around a gap: Other did not exist until SRS closed on 18 June 2024, and the fiscal 2025 10-K confirms Primary equalled consolidated for all of fiscal 2023. They are marked estimated because they come from that identity rather than from a printed segment table.
  • The first non-zero quarter is a stub. SRS closed roughly six weeks into fiscal 2024 Q2, so the $1,274M in 2024 Q2 here is not a full quarter of trading; it is carried as history but is excluded from every growth rate and every seasonal factor in this model.
  • The 7.28% EBITDA margin is segment-disclosed on a trailing-twelve-month basis: operating income $291M plus D&A $880M over net sales $16,085M. The reported operating margin is far thinner, about 1.8%, because most of this segment's D&A is acquired-intangible amortisation - $125M of the $236M booked in the basis quarter. Terminal 8.0% sits between today and fiscal 2024's pre-GMS 8.91%: scale on integration, not a re-rating.
  • A capacity driver on branches was considered and rejected. Branch counts are disclosed only as rounded floors - 'over 760', 'over 800', 'over 1,200', 'over 1,340' - and the base stepped with acquisitions rather than with capacity added, so revenue per branch would be an artefact of the rounding. Growth on the disclosed net-sales line is the only evidenced driver here.
  • Home Depot has spent roughly $8bn on SRS, $5.1bn on GMS and $1.1bn on Mingledorff's in three years and gives no forward acquisition guidance. The 1.40% quarterly rate is organic plus new branches only. A further tuck-in would put this model below reported revenue without the model being wrong, and no acquisition allowance is added to pretend otherwise.
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