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• Wide-Moat Lowe’s Business Update Corroborates our Long-Term Financial Outlook; Shares Fairly Valued
• Vote in Favor of Reproductive Rights Proposals at Three Key Retailers, Morningstar Sustainalytics Says
• Lowe’s Companies Price Performance
• Lowe's: Price Is What You Pay, Value Is What You Get
• Lowe's Companies Analyst Data

Inc. announced a new $15 billion buyback authorization Wednesday morning, ahead of the company's investor day. Lowe's still has $6.4 billion remaining on its prior buyback a... Get stock recommendations, portfolio guidance, and more from The Motley Fool's premium services. Volatility profiles based on trailing-three-year calculations of the standard deviation of service investment returns. Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns.

Lowe’s offers a wide range of products and services for home decoration, maintenance, repair, remodeling and property maintenance. High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks.

Wide-Moat Lowe’s Business Update Corroborates our Long-Term Financial Outlook; Shares Fairly Valued

In summary, I believe Lowe's is a high-quality business that's trading in bargain territory. It has several key competitive advantages including its brand, economies of scale, and extensive distribution network. It's aggressively returning capital to shareholders in the form of share buybacks and dividend bumps. While it's seeing some near-term headwinds, I believe the long-term growth thesis is intact and the current valuation presents an attractive opportunity for long-term investors. Lowe's stock has fallen substantially, with shares returning -25% since the start of the year.

Lowe's new share repurchases come in addition to the last program. I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, and no plans to initiate any such positions within the next 72 hours. Lowe's is a high-quality home improvement retailer with several key competitive advantages. By creating a free account, you agree to our terms of service.

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As shown below, Lowe's scores an A+ profitability score, driven by its above average EBITDA margin and returns on capital. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 to -2 . This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.58 average news sentiment score of Retail/Wholesale companies. Based on earnings estimates, Lowe's Companies will have a dividend payout ratio of 29.81% next year.

Wedbush’s price target would suggest a potential downside of 0.88% from the stock’s previous close. The company sells its national brand-name merchandise and private branded products to homeowners, renters, and professional customers; and retail customers comprising individual homeowners and renters. It also offers installation services through independent cont... Incorporated in 1952 and based in Mooresville, NC, Lowe’s has its operations primarily in the U.S. and Canada.

Lowe’s Companies Price Performance

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Crawford Investment Counsel Inc. now owns 12,308 shares of the home improvement retailer’s stock worth $2,489,000 after acquiring an additional 52 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 74.04% of the company’s stock. Lowe's Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and internationally. The company offers a line of products for construction, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating.

However, it's worth noting that this is on the back of a difficult comparable, due to heighted retail spending last year due to stay at home trends. On a two-year stacked basis, Lowe's U.S. comparable sales actually increased by a respectable 19.7%. Real-time analyst ratings, insider transactions, earnings data, and more.

Lowe's Companies has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.1, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume. Costco's first-quarter results are likely to reflect better price management, decent membership trends and the increasing penetration of the e-commerce business. D.A. Davison on Friday said stocks in the SPDR S&P Retail ETF tend to underperform during the period from Black Friday to the end of the year.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced their target price on shares of Lowe’s Companies from $235.00 to $205.00 in a research report on Friday, November 11th. Evercore ISI boosted their price target on Lowe’s Companies from $240.00 to $250.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 18th. DA Davidson raised their price objective on Lowe’s Companies from $225.00 to $247.00 in a report on Thursday, August 18th. Finally, Piper Sandler lifted their target price on Lowe’s Companies from $248.00 to $253.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 17th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have issued a hold rating and sixteen have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Lowe’s Companies presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $232.63.

This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. MarketRank is calculated as an average of available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation. To further protect the integrity of our editorial content, we keep a strict separation between our sales teams and authors to remove any pressure or influence on our analyses and research. We’d like to share more about how we work and what drives our day-to-day business. CompareLOW’s historical performanceagainst its industry peers and the overall market.