Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, emerged as the real champion in the Q4 earnings season as the stock climbed as much as 5% to a new 52-week high of $117.92 on the day of its earnings announcement on February 24. The company strongly surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 11 cents on earnings and by $490 million on revenues. For 2015, it expects revenues to grow 3.5% to 4.7% annually while earnings per share to increase 8.5% to 10% to $5.11 to $5.17.