The Stories Behind RH

RH (NYSE: RH), known as Restoration Hardware, is kind of hot.

Its stock price is more than doubled in 2020 and increased by more than 5x from its March bottom.

What has changed?

1/ as the pandemic hit, people spend more time at their places – meanwhile they spend money to renovate their places.

2/ wealthy people can’t travel and don’t have much ways to spend – new luxury furnitures spending fulfills some of those void!

3/ RH is now a brand/lifestyle. It’s not just furnitures – RH has restaurants, plans to open hotels.

To put those in chart.. (light blue line is Wayfair and pink line is Hermès)

Wayfair = furniture website

Hermès = luxury brand