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Lowe's Companies LOW Price / earnings

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$23.1B+10.3%
Gross profit$7.5B+8.0%
Operating income$2.6B+2.4%
Net income$1.6B-0.8%
EPS (diluted)$2.90-0.7%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$786.0M-74.3%
Total debt$41.7B+20.0%
Total equity-$9.3B+30.1%
Total assets$54.9B+21.1%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$3.4B-0.9%
CapEx$521.0M+0.6%
Free cash flow$2.8B-1.1%

Valuation

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Market cap$121.82B+7.6%
Enterprise value$162.77B+12.0%
P/S1.4×0.0×

Profitability

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Gross margin33.3%-0.1pp
Operating margin11.5%-0.8pp
Net margin7.5%-0.7pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity631.1%
Debt / equity59.3×
Current ratio1.1×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Lowe's Companies’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Lowe's Companies’s 10-Q, filed May 28, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Lowe's Companies's price / earnings?
Lowe's Companies (LOW) reported price / earnings of 20.1× in Q1 2026.
How has Lowe's Companies's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Lowe's Companies's price / earnings increased by 10.9% year-over-year, from 18.2× to 20.1×.
What is the long-term trend for Lowe's Companies's price / earnings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Lowe's Companies's price / earnings has grown at a 0.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 76× to 78.6×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.