Lowe's Companies, Inc.

LOW · Consumer Cyclical

$186.06
-1.51% today

What a holder would want to know before buying LOW: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $179.50 · Oct 2026High $287.39 · Feb 2026

Today’s price is 4% above the lowest point of the past year and 35% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 2% of days and more expensive on 98%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 48% of days.

19% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 8 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 49%; the longest took 2.8 years to get back to its peak. 7 of 8 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 35% below the Feb 2026 peak.

Feb 2026
−38%not back yet
Oct 2024
−26%back in 16 months
Dec 2021
−34%back in 2.8 years
Feb 2020
−49%back in 3 months
Apr 2019
−22%back in 7 months
Sep 2018
−26%back in 7 months
and 2 earlier
What you own

Lowe's Companies, Inc. · Consumer Cyclical · Home Improvement Retail · a large company worth $104.36B

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…

Is it making money?
2023
2024
2025
2026

revenue profit

Sales of $86.29B in 2026, with $6.65B of profit. Sales grew in 1 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 7 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$3.17B
Debt
$42.03B
Free cash flow / yr
$4.62B

Would need about 9.1 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $16 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $14 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 2.65% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Oct 21.

What others are doing

35 analysts: 24 say buy, 10 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $249.39 (range $190.00–$290.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 3 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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