Lowe's operates roughly 1,760 home improvement stores across the US, selling products for home repair, maintenance, remodeling, and decoration. The product mix skews heavily toward maintenance and repair (about two-thirds of sales). Customers are primarily DIY homeowners (60%+ of sales), with professional contractors making up a growing share now above 30%. Revenue comes almost entirely from retail product sales in-store and online.
Employees276,000IPOJan 18, 2018SIC5211HQ1000 Lowes Boulevard, Mooresville, NC, USA, 28117
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Financials
Profitability
Metric
Current
Margins
Gross Margin
33.1%
Operating Margin
11.4%
EBITDA Margin
14.2%
Net Margin
7.4%
OCF Margin
10.2%
FCF Margin
7.7%
Returns on Capital
ROE
—
ROA
12.5%
ROIC
19.0%
ROCE
31.8%
ROC (Greenblatt)
41.6%
3Y ROIIC
3.8%
Consistency
Years Profitable / 10Y
10
Valuation
Metric
Current
Earnings Multiples
P/E (TTM)
16.57
Forward P/E
16.00
P/E ex-NRI
15.73
Shiller P/E (CAPE)
19.47
Cash Flow Multiples
P/FCF
15.69
P/OCF
11.86
P/Owner Earnings
17.37
FCF Yield
6.36%
Enterprise Value Multiples
EV / EBIT
14.39
EV / Forward EBIT
14.49
EV / EBITDA
11.63
EV / Forward EBITDA
12.19
EV / Revenue
1.65
EV / Forward Revenue
1.60
Asset / Sales
P/S
1.21
P/B
—
P/Tangible Book
—
Growth-Adjusted
PEG
1.79
Capital Returns
Metric
Current
Dividends
Dividend Yield (TTM)
2.46%
Forward Dividend Yield
2.54%
3Y Dividend Growth
6.3%
Payout Ratio
0.39
5Y Yield on Cost
4.89%
Buybacks & Dilution
3Y Buyback Ratio
2.30%
Combined
Shareholder Yield
−0.87%
Balance Sheet
Metric
Current
Leverage
Debt / Equity
−5.65
Gross Debt / EBITDA
3.27
Cash / Debt
0.08
Equity / Assets
−0.13
Coverage
Interest Coverage
6.39
Short-Term Liquidity
Current Ratio
1.10
Quick Ratio
0.27
Cash Ratio
0.15
Composite Scores
Piotroski F-Score
7
Altman Z-Score
3.13
Split History
Date
Split
No split history found.
Ex-date
Amount
Pay date
2026-10-21
$1.25
2026-11-04
2026-07-22
$1.25
2026-08-05
2026-04-22
$1.2
2026-05-06
2026-01-21
$1.2
2026-02-04
2025-10-22
$1.2
2025-11-05
2025-07-23
$1.2
2025-08-06
2025-04-23
$1.15
2025-05-07
2025-01-22
$1.15
2025-02-05
2024-10-23
$1.15
2024-11-06
2024-07-24
$1.15
2024-08-07
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Transcript
Type
2026-08-19
Q2 2026 Lowe's Companies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call
2026-06-18
Lowe's Companies Inc at Oppenheimer Consumer Growth & E-Commerce Conference Transcript
Conference Presentations
2026-05-29
Lowe's Companies Inc Annual Shareholders Meeting Transcript
Shareholders and Annual Meetings
2026-05-20
Q1 2026 Lowe's Companies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call
2026-02-25
Q4 2025 Lowe's Companies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call
2025-12-02
Lowe's Companies Inc at Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference Transcript
Conference Presentations
2025-11-19
Q3 2025 Lowe's Companies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call
2025-08-20
Q2 2025 Lowe's Companies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call
2025-05-21
Q1 2025 Lowe's Companies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call
2025-02-26
Q4 2024 Lowe's Companies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call
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5-Step DuPont Analysis
ROE %
-70.53%
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Net Margin %
7.35%
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×
Operating Margin %
11.38%
Operating Income
$10.29B
÷
Revenue
$90.43B
×
Tax Burden
0.7581
Net Income
$6.64B
÷
Pretax Income
$8.76B
×
Interest Burden
0.8514
Pretax Income
$8.76B
÷
Operating Income
$10.29B
×
Asset Turnover
1.76
÷
Revenue
$90.43B
÷
Average Total Assets
$51.25B
Begin Total Assets
$46.61B
End Total Assets
$55.88B
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Equity Multiplier
-5.44
÷
Avg Total Assets
$51.25B
÷
Avg Stockholders Equity
−$9.42B
Begin Equity
−$11.40B
End Equity
−$7.44B