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 <p class="News-body-text"> ATLANTA — Home Depot beat Wall Street expectations for the third quarter thanks in part to repairs necessitated by Harvey and Irma, a pair of hurricanes that caused tremendous damage in the South.  </p> 
 <p class="News-body-text"> The Atlanta home improvement retailer was one of the inadvertent winners in the aftermath of the massive storms that struck Texas and Florida, leaving billions in damages and shaving as much as at least one-half of 1 percentage point off annual growth for the U.S. in the same quarter.  </p> 
 <p class="News-body-text"> Home Depot Inc. raised its outlook for the year.  </p> 
 <p class="News-body-text"> It earned $2.17 billion, or $1.84 per share, for the three months ended Oct. 29. That&#39;s 3 cents better than expected, according to a survey by Zacks Investment Research. The company last year during the same period earned $1.97 billion, or $1.60 per share.  </p> 
 <p class="News-body-text"> Revenue also rose to $25.03 billion, from $23.15 billion, to be analyst projections of $24.52 billion.  </p> 
 <p class="News-body-text"> Sales at stores open at least a year, a key gauge of a retailer&#39;s health, rose 7.9 percent. In the U.S., they climbed 7.7 percent.  </p> 
 <p class="News-body-text"> The company attributed about $282 million in same-store sales growth to the hurricanes. It was not unscathed, however, and the storms dinged operating profit by approximately $51 million.  </p> 
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