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Company Profile & Ownership

Lowe's Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and Canada. It provides a line of products for construction, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating. The company also offers home improvement products, such as appliances, seasonal and outdoor living, lumber, lawn and garden, kitchens and bath, hardware, building materials, millwork, paint, rough plumbing, tools, electrical, flooring, and décor. In addition, it provides installation services through independent contractors in various product categories; and extended protection plans and repair services. Further, the company provides design, distribution, and installation services for interior surface finishes to home builders and property managers. It sells its national brand-name merchandise and private brand products to professional customers, individual homeowners, and renters. The company serves its products through Lowes.com website, mobile applications, retail home improvement stores and outlet stores, and its branches. Lowe's Companies, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is based in Mooresville, North Carolina.

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Lowe's Companies Inc

Common Stock · Consumer Discretionary · Home Improvement Retail

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Company

Company / asset: Lowe's Companies Inc
Security type: Common Stock
Sector: Consumer Discretionary
Industry: Home Improvement Retail
HQ: 🇺🇸 United States
Head office: 1000 Lowes Boulevard, Mooresville, NC, United States, 28117

Leadership & scale

Chief executive: Mr. Marvin R. Ellison
CEO year born: 1965
Full-time employees: 300K
Fiscal year end: January
IPO date: 1985-07-01

Fundamentals snapshot

Updated 2026-09-16

Market Cap: USD 107.8B
P/E: 16.2x
Revenue (Q3 26): USD 26.0B
Profit (Q3 26): USD 2.4B
Dividend Yield: 1.8%
Revenue (FY 26): USD 86.3B
Shares in public float: 559.8M
Insider ownership: 0.11%

Reporting & identifiers

Symbol: LOW.NYSE
Listing: 🇺🇸 United States | Dividend Tax: 30%
Ticker Currency: USD
Income Statement Currency: USD
Balance Sheet Currency: USD
Cash Flow Currency: USD
EPS Currency: USD
Contract Type: SPOT
ISIN: US5486611073
Asset ID: equity_b1302ac2-6b39-559e-99c3-a49b1bff7da0

Ownership

Shares Outstanding

Shares outstanding

Annual reported shares outstanding. Values in shares.

Top holders

BlackRock Inc39,693,036 shares · 7.07% · Reported 2026-03-31
JPMorgan Chase & Co37,109,610 shares · 6.61% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC36,455,463 shares · 6.50% · Reported 2026-03-31
FMR Inc31,855,651 shares · 5.68% · Reported 2026-03-31
State Street Corp24,448,558 shares · 4.36% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest17,854,279 shares · 3.18% · Reported 2026-07-31
Vanguard 500 Index Investor14,701,234 shares · 2.62% · Reported 2026-07-31

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Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC14,257,036 shares · 2.54% · Reported 2026-03-31
Geode Capital Management, LLC14,112,087 shares · 2.52% · Reported 2026-03-31
Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts11,096,154 shares · 1.98% · Reported 2026-03-31
Fidelity Contrafund9,411,331 shares · 1.68% · Reported 2026-07-31
Wells Fargo & Co8,748,137 shares · 1.56% · Reported 2026-03-31
Bank of America Corp8,494,032 shares · 1.51% · Reported 2026-03-31
NORGES BANK8,270,160 shares · 1.47% · Reported 2026-06-30
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF7,458,328 shares · 1.33% · Reported 2026-08-31

Earnings, Profitability & Valuation

Earnings & Revenue

AI Review

The company's financial reports show a clear split between headline sales growth and actual profitability. While total revenue recently jumped by over ten percent due to the acquisition of large wholesale businesses, actual net income has flatlined or even shrunk. The biggest change is the sudden death of the company's massive stock buyback program, which dropped from fourteen billion dollars to almost nothing. This means the company can no longer artificially boost its earnings per share by reducing the number of shares outstanding. Most assessments agree that future earnings will face heavy pressure as the company is forced to pay higher interest rates to refinance its massive debt. However, there is disagreement on how quickly the new professional contractor sales can grow to offset the weak retail store sales.

Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow

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Free cash flow
Net income

Annual reported financial results, converted using the statement's recorded USD conversion. Missing values are omitted. Values in USD.

Valuation

Historical P/E Ratio

Published P/E

Published valuation snapshots. Trailing four-quarter earnings where available; annual earnings otherwise. Non-positive earnings are omitted. Values in times earnings.

Profitability & Margins

AI Review

The company's profit margins are facing structural pressure. While gross margins remain stable at around thirty-three percent due to the company's massive size and pricing power, operating margins have compressed to around eleven to twelve percent. This decline is driven by the integration of the newly acquired wholesale businesses, which naturally operate at lower than traditional retail stores. Additionally, rising freight costs and tariffs are inflating the cost of goods. There is a clear clash over the future margin outlook: optimistic views suggest margins will rebound as the company integrates its acquisitions and uses artificial intelligence to cut costs, while cautious views argue that margins will remain permanently lower as lower-margin professional contractor sales become a larger part of the business mix.

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Annual earnings and profitability
Period end	Revenue	Free cash flow	Net income	Gross margin	Operating margin	Net margin	Free cash flow margin
2017-01-31	65,017,000,000	4,450,000,000	3,091,000,000	33.34	8.99	4.75	6.84
2018-01-31	68,619,000,000	3,942,000,000	3,447,000,000	32.69	9.6	5.02	5.74
2019-01-31	71,309,000,000	5,019,000,000	2,314,000,000	32.12	5.63	3.25	7.04
2020-01-31	72,148,000,000	2,812,000,000	4,281,000,000	31.8	8.75	5.93	3.9
2021-01-31	89,597,000,000	9,258,000,000	5,835,000,000	33.01	10.77	6.51	10.33
2022-01-31	96,250,000,000	8,260,000,000	8,442,000,000	33.3	12.56	8.77	8.58
2023-01-31	97,059,000,000	6,760,000,000	6,437,000,000	33.23	10.47	6.63	6.96
2024-01-31	86,377,000,000	6,176,000,000	7,726,000,000	33.39	13.38	8.94	7.15
2025-01-31	83,674,000,000	7,698,000,000	6,957,000,000	33.32	12.51	8.31	9.2
2026-01-31	86,286,000,000	7,651,000,000	6,654,000,000	33.48	11.77	7.71	8.87

Published valuation snapshots
Period end	P/E (times earnings)	Earnings basis
2026-01-31	22.48	Trailing four quarters
2025-01-31	20.93	Trailing four quarters
2024-01-31	15.59	Trailing four quarters
2023-01-31	18.67	Annual net income
2022-01-31	17.43	Annual net income

Shares outstanding — chart values
Reporting date	Shares outstanding
2017-01-01	832,000,000
2018-01-01	807,000,000
2019-01-01	770,000,000
2020-01-01	754,000,000
2021-01-01	690,000,000
2022-01-01	620,000,000
2023-01-01	577,000,000
2024-01-01	566,000,000
2025-01-01	560,000,000
2026-01-01	560,000,000

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