Lowe's Companies (LOW)

• Market cap: $151B
• 1 day: 0.66%
• 5 days: -0.13%
• 1 month: 7.5%
• 3 months: 27.93%
• 6 months: 20.97%
• Year to date: 9.2%
• 1 year: 5.1%
• 5 years: 68.46%
• 10 years: 295.53%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Home Improvement Retail

About: Lowe's is the second-largest home improvement retailer globally, with around 1,750 stores in the US, after the 2023 divestiture of its Canadian locations (RONA, Lowe's Canada, Réno-Dépôt, and Dick's Lumber). The firm's stores offer products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair, and remodeling, with maintenance and repair accounting for two-thirds of products sold. Lowe's primarily targets retail do-it-yourself (around 70% of sales) and do-it-for-me customers, but has expanded its professional business clients to 30% from less than 20% in the past six years (set ot expand further with the acquisition of FBM). We estimate Lowe's captures a high-single-digit share of the domestic home improvement market, based on US Census data and management's market size estimates.

Employees: 270,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

13% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $1.26B | Put options by funds: $1.11B

1.89% more ownership

Funds ownership: 75.04% [Q1] → 76.93% (+1.89%) [Q2]

1% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 990 | Existing positions reduced: 1,002

2% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 147 | Existing positions closed: 150

3% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $97.9B [Q1] → $95.1B (-$2.71B) [Q2]

2% less funds holding

Funds holding: 2,607 [Q1] → 2,559 (-48) [Q2]

21% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 52 [Q1] → 41 (-11) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

16 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $242
• Avg. target: $285
• High target: $325

16 analyst ratings

• positive: 11 69%
• neutral: 5 31%
• negative: 0 0%

Mizuho David Bellinger	$285	Outperform Maintained	29 Aug 2025
Wells Fargo Zachary Fadem	$300	Overweight Maintained	21 Aug 2025
Truist Securities Scot Ciccarelli	$283	Buy Maintained	21 Aug 2025
Barclays Seth Sigman	$267	Equal-Weight Maintained	21 Aug 2025
JP Morgan Christopher Horvers	$283	Overweight Maintained	21 Aug 2025