Home improvement retailer serving customers through stores across North America and online platforms.
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Lowe's Companies: Company identity, ownership, reported financial performance, balance sheets, and corporate actions.
Profile & Fundamentals
Lowe's Companies Profile & Fundamentals
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Company and Market Context
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.
Company profile record
Lowe's Companies Inc
Common Stock · Consumer Discretionary · Home Improvement Retail
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
- Market Cap
- USD 102.9B
- P/E
- 15.5x
- 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
Latest: 560.0M | Max: 832.0M | Min: 560.0M
Latest reported ownership snapshot
As of Oct 1, 2026Float Shares
99.96%
559.8M latest reported shares
Insider Ownership
0.11%
Latest reported insider stake
Short Float
0.02%
Latest reported short interest / float
Top Holders
Source tablesView ownership tables
Shares Outstanding
Annual reported shares outstanding; up to 10 reporting dates.
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| 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 |
Top Holders
Available reported ownership records.
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| Holder | Shares | Ownership | Reported date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock Inc | 39,693,036 | 7.07% | 2026-03-31 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 37,109,610 | 6.61% | 2026-03-31 |
| Vanguard Capital Management, LLC | 36,455,463 | 6.5% | 2026-03-31 |
| FMR Inc | 31,855,651 | 5.68% | 2026-03-31 |
| State Street Corp | 24,448,558 | 4.36% | 2026-03-31 |
| Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest | 17,818,689 | 3.18% | 2026-08-31 |
| Vanguard 500 Index Investor | 14,877,501 | 2.65% | 2026-08-31 |
| Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC | 14,257,036 | 2.54% | 2026-03-31 |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 14,112,087 | 2.52% | 2026-03-31 |
| Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts | 11,096,154 | 1.98% | 2026-03-31 |
| Fidelity Contrafund | 9,411,331 | 1.68% | 2026-07-31 |
| Wells Fargo & Co | 8,748,137 | 1.56% | 2026-03-31 |
| Bank of America Corp | 8,494,032 | 1.51% | 2026-03-31 |
| NORGES BANK | 8,270,160 | 1.47% | 2026-06-30 |
| iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | 7,458,328 | 1.33% | 2026-08-31 |
Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
Earnings & Revenue
Earnings and Revenue Trajectory
AI Review
Lowe's generated 86.3 billion dollars in fiscal 2025 revenue, while recent twelve-month revenue expanded past 90 billion dollars. Second-quarter fiscal 2026 sales climbed 8.3 percent, but comparable store sales rose only 0.2 percent. This divergence reveals that top-line expansion was driven by acquisitions of wholesale distributors rather than organic customer traffic in retail stores. Beneath the surface, reported net income held steady at 6.64 billion dollars as higher financing expenses and integration costs offset sales gains. Crucially, the business converted profits into 7.0 billion dollars in free cash flow, proving that recurring repair demand keeps core cash generation exceptionally healthy.
Lowe's generated 86.3 billion dollars in fiscal 2025 revenue, while recent twelve-month revenue expanded past 90 billion dollars. Second-quarter fiscal 2026 sales climbed 8.3 percent, but comparable store sales rose only 0.2 percent. This divergence reveals that top-line expansion was driven by acquisitions of wholesale distributors rather than organic customer traffic in retail stores. Beneath the surface, reported net income held steady at 6.64 billion dollars as higher financing expenses and integration costs offset sales gains. Crucially, the business converted profits into 7.0 billion dollars in free cash flow, proving that recurring repair demand keeps core cash generation exceptionally healthy.
Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow
Latest: USD 86.3B | Max: USD 97.1B | Min: USD 2.3B
Valuation
P/E Ratio (TTM)iPublished valuation snapshots use the earnings basis recorded with each observation. Source tables retain that basis.
Latest: 22x
Profitability & Margins
Margins and Operating Efficiency
AI Review
Gross profit margins have demonstrated remarkable durability, holding steady at 33.5 percent across multi-year sales cycles. This consistency highlights strong duopoly pricing power and effective vendor negotiations, which have successfully absorbed higher import tariffs and freight costs without sacrificing merchandise markups. In contrast, operating margins compressed from 13.38 percent in fiscal 2024 to 11.77 percent in fiscal 2026, with current guidance near 11.2 percent. This decline reflects wage increases, higher infrastructure depreciation, and the onboarding of lower-margin wholesale distributor volumes. As logistics automation scales, operating margins should stabilize near twelve percent.
Gross profit margins have demonstrated remarkable durability, holding steady at 33.5 percent across multi-year sales cycles. This consistency highlights strong duopoly pricing power and effective vendor negotiations, which have successfully absorbed higher import tariffs and freight costs without sacrificing merchandise markups. In contrast, operating margins compressed from 13.38 percent in fiscal 2024 to 11.77 percent in fiscal 2026, with current guidance near 11.2 percent. This decline reflects wage increases, higher infrastructure depreciation, and the onboarding of lower-margin wholesale distributor volumes. As logistics automation scales, operating margins should stabilize near twelve percent.
Profitability Margins
Latest: 33.5% | Max: 33.5% | Min: 3.2%
Latest Profitability Ratios as of 2026-01-31
Gross Margin
33.5%
Gross profit / revenue
Operating Margin
11.8%
Operating income / revenue
Net Margin
7.7%
Net income / revenue
FCF Margin
8.9%
Free cash flow / revenue
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Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow
Annual reported results, using the source statement's recorded USD conversion. Up to 10 reporting periods; missing values are not estimated.
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| Period end | Revenue (USD) | Net income (USD) | Free cash flow (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-31 | 65,017,000,000 | 3,091,000,000 | 4,450,000,000 |
| 2018-01-31 | 68,619,000,000 | 3,447,000,000 | 3,942,000,000 |
| 2019-01-31 | 71,309,000,000 | 2,314,000,000 | 5,019,000,000 |
| 2020-01-31 | 72,148,000,000 | 4,281,000,000 | 2,812,000,000 |
| 2021-01-31 | 89,597,000,000 | 5,835,000,000 | 9,258,000,000 |
| 2022-01-31 | 96,250,000,000 | 8,442,000,000 | 8,260,000,000 |
| 2023-01-31 | 97,059,000,000 | 6,437,000,000 | 6,760,000,000 |
| 2024-01-31 | 86,377,000,000 | 7,726,000,000 | 6,176,000,000 |
| 2025-01-31 | 83,674,000,000 | 6,957,000,000 | 7,698,000,000 |
| 2026-01-31 | 86,286,000,000 | 6,654,000,000 | 7,651,000,000 |
Published P/E Ratio
Published valuation snapshots retain each observation's earnings basis.
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| 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 |
Profitability Margins
Matching annual reporting dates. Values are percentages.
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| Period end | Gross margin (%) | Operating margin (%) | Net margin (%) | Free cash flow margin (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-31 | 33.34 | 8.99 | 4.75 | 6.84 |
| 2018-01-31 | 32.69 | 9.6 | 5.02 | 5.74 |
| 2019-01-31 | 32.12 | 5.63 | 3.25 | 7.04 |
| 2020-01-31 | 31.8 | 8.75 | 5.93 | 3.9 |
| 2021-01-31 | 33.01 | 10.77 | 6.51 | 10.33 |
| 2022-01-31 | 33.3 | 12.56 | 8.77 | 8.58 |
| 2023-01-31 | 33.23 | 10.47 | 6.63 | 6.96 |
| 2024-01-31 | 33.39 | 13.38 | 8.94 | 7.15 |
| 2025-01-31 | 33.32 | 12.51 | 8.31 | 9.2 |
| 2026-01-31 | 33.48 | 11.77 | 7.71 | 8.87 |
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