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Lowe's Companies LOW Return on assets

Return on assets at other companies

Sherwin-Williams logo
Sherwin-WilliamsSHW
10.2%-1.0pp
Walmart
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Walmart WMT
8.2%+0.9pp
Home Depot logo
Home DepotHD
13.5%-2.9pp
Tractor Supply Company logo
Tractor Supply CompanyTSCO
17.7%+6.8pp
Amazon logo
AmazonAMZN
10.1%-1.1pp
Ferguson Enterprises logo
Ferguson EnterprisesFERG
11.2%

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/E18.3×+1.8×
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 trailing twelve months.

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 return on assets?
Lowe's Companies (LOW) reported return on assets of 13.2% in Q1 2026.
How has Lowe's Companies's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Lowe's Companies's return on assets decreased by 12.2% year-over-year, from 15.1% to 13.2%.
What is the long-term trend for Lowe's Companies's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Lowe's Companies's return on assets has grown at a -2.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 62.8% to 57.6%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.