Home Depot has delivered phenomenal returns over its history.You might not know it, but Home Depot (HD -0.88%) is one of the best-performing stocks in the history of the stock market.The home improvement retailer went public in 1981 just three years after the company was founded. At the time it had just six stores, but it grew quickly in its early years. Today, it has more than 2,000 stores, primarily in the U.S.As a stock, Home Depot delivered a phenomenal return of 1,730,000% since its IPO. It would have ...