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Stanley Black & Decker earns most of its revenue from power tools, hand tools, accessories and lawn and garden equipment used by professionals and consumers. Its brands include DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, STANLEY and BLACK+DECKER. Most products reach users through retailers, distributors and independent dealers. Home Depot and Lowe’s are its largest customers, so their orders and inventory decisions materially influence sales. Their bargaining power also limits the company’s ability to pass on higher costs.
A smaller business supplies manufacturers with components and equipment used to fasten and join parts, including fasteners, riveting systems and welding systems. Automotive, electronics and aerospace companies are among the buyers, served mainly by the company’s own sales force.
Demand depends partly on construction and housing activity, consumer spending and manufacturers’ investment. The company imports substantial quantities of finished products, parts and raw materials. Those imports are subject to tariffs, customs requirements and trade restrictions, which affect sourcing and costs.
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Stanley Black & Decker depends largely on professional and consumer tool demand, but also watch Lowe’s, absent from this list, which accounted for approximately 12% of its 2025 sales.
Snap-on competes with Stanley Black & Decker for industrial and trade customers buying professional hand tools, power tools and tool storage. Its sales to commercial and industrial customers offer a window into demand from buyers the two share.
Stanley Black & Decker relies on Home Depot to buy and resell its tools; the retailer accounted for approximately 15% of its consolidated net sales in 2025. Watch Home Depot’s sales to professionals and do-it-yourself customers, whose project spending supports both businesses.
Home repair and remodeling spending supports both Masco’s paint and plumbing-fixture sales and Stanley Black & Decker’s professional and DIY tools. Watch Masco’s Decorative Architectural Products sales, which normally strengthen in the second and third calendar quarters as repair and remodeling activity peaks.
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. sells fixtures and outdoor building products through the same major home centers and home-improvement cycle that support Stanley Black & Decker’s tools. Its sales through U.S. home centers offer another view of that channel’s demand.
Hillman Solutions Corp. sells fasteners, hardware and work gear to retailers for projects that also require Stanley Black & Decker’s tools and storage. Watch its Hardware and Protective Solutions sales for another read on spending on those projects.
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. supplies structural connectors and fasteners for construction projects whose contractors also use Stanley Black & Decker’s professional tools. Its sales of products for wood and concrete construction offer a view of activity behind that professional-tool demand.
Howmet Aerospace competes with Stanley Black & Decker in engineered fastening systems sold to industrial customers and agreed to buy its CAM aerospace business for approximately $1.8 billion in cash. Watch regulatory approval and closing news: completion would advance Stanley Black & Decker’s shift toward tools, outdoor equipment and engineered fastening.
Housing Starts (Sep)
Stanley Black & Decker sells tools and outdoor equipment, so measures of new-home building track housing activity that can affect purchases of its products and sales to retailers and other customers.
Expected1.31MLast release1.275M
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 1.31M estimate, it is above the previous 1.275M. More building can support demand for the company’s tools and outdoor equipment, potentially increasing purchases by retailers and other customers.
If it comes in below expectations
Less building can weaken demand for the company’s tools and outdoor equipment, potentially reducing purchases by retailers and other customers.
Snap-on Incorporated earningsSNA
Snap-on’s report will show how industrial and trade customers are buying tools, a demand pool Stanley Black & Decker also serves.
Read Snap-on’s sales to commercial and industrial customers alongside Stanley Black & Decker’s Tools & Outdoor sales or volume. Strength at Snap-on with stability in Stanley Black & Decker’s tools business would point to support from shared professional buyers. Weakness at Snap-on would flag possible caution among those buyers and pressure on Stanley Black & Decker’s professional-tool demand, though the companies’ product and customer mixes can make their results differ.
Durable Goods Orders MoM (Sep)
Stanley Black & Decker sells engineered fastening components to automotive, aerospace and manufacturing customers, so orders for long-lasting goods track activity that can change those customers’ purchases and the company’s sales.
Expected0.2%Last release-0.1%
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 0.2% estimate, it is above the previous -0.1%. More orders can mean stronger customer activity, supporting purchases of the company’s fastening components and sales to those customers.
If it comes in below expectations
Fewer orders can mean weaker customer activity, potentially reducing purchases of the company’s fastening components and sales to those customers.
Masco Corporation earningsMAS
Masco’s Decorative Architectural Products sales offer a read on home repair and remodeling activity, which also supports demand for Stanley Black & Decker tools.
Compare Masco’s Decorative Architectural Products sales with Stanley Black & Decker’s Tools & Outdoor sales or volume. Strength at Masco alongside stability in Stanley Black & Decker’s tools business would suggest home repair and remodeling projects are still supporting tool demand. Weakness at Masco would point to softer project activity and less support for Stanley Black & Decker’s professional and DIY tools, but would not by itself prove that its sales fell.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. earningsThis company
Tools & Outdoor generates most of Stanley Black & Decker’s sales, and this report will show whether its sales and margins can hold up.
Read Tools & Outdoor sales alongside its segment profit margin, the segment’s profit as a share of sales. Steady or improving sales or volume with a stable or rising margin would show that demand is holding and pricing and supply-chain efficiencies are helping absorb tariffs and other costs. Falling sales or volume alongside a narrower margin would show that demand pressure and costs are outweighing those gains, leaving the tools business on a weaker footing.
Home Depot, Inc. earningsHD
Home Depot is a major Stanley Black & Decker customer, and its report will show whether professional and DIY project spending is supporting tool sales at the retailer.
Read Home Depot’s sales to professional and DIY customers with its importance as a customer: it accounted for about 15% of Stanley Black & Decker’s consolidated sales in 2025. Stronger sales would suggest customers are buying project supplies at Home Depot, supporting the retailer’s resale and potential replenishment of Stanley Black & Decker tools. Weaker sales could lead to less replenishment and pressure on Stanley Black & Decker. Home Depot’s retail sales show what customers buy there, not how much Stanley Black & Decker sold to the retailer in that period.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Stanley Black & Decker sells engineered fasteners to manufacturers, so factory, mine and utility output tracks industrial activity that can change manufacturers’ purchases and the company’s sales.
Stronger industrial output may mean manufacturers are busier and buy more of the company’s engineered fasteners; weaker output may mean less activity and fewer purchases.
