liz suzuki joins us where she is over at the securities research analysts. what stood out to you when you see home depot? what are your key takeaways? liz: so, i think this quarter, when we think about home depot comparing against one of his strongest quarters in history and it still grew sales by 8%. at bought back almost $7 billion worth of stock in the first half of the year. it's really deploying that strong balance sheet towards shareholder from initiatives and towards investing in its own capex in terms of the supply chain and improving its competitive mode. what came through was the strength large ticket purchases. the professional customers outpacing the diy customer. last year was really a diy surge. and now we are lapping those strong diy -- we're in a period where the professional is still seeing very strong backlogs of projects. so, growth in high ticket sales came across as an area of strength. romaine: we definitely saw that in the numbers, even the transactions were down we saw the dollar value per transaction go up. lowe's don't quite have the