What is Lowe's Companies's return on equity?

Lowe's Companies (LOW) reported return on equity of 631.1% in Q1 2021.

What does return on equity mean?

How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.

How do you interpret return on equity?

Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.

How does return on equity compare across companies?

Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.

Lowe's Companies LOW Return on equity

Discontinued — last reported Q1 '21

Return on equity at other companies

Sherwin-WilliamsSHW

60.7%-9.5pp

Walmart WMT

25.5%+2.7pp

Home DepotHD

128.4%-171pp

Tractor Supply CompanyTSCO

82.1%+32.4pp

AmazonAMZN

21.1%-4.1pp

Ferguson EnterprisesFERG

34.1%+1.6pp

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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Debt / equity59.3×—

Current ratio1.1×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Lowe's Companies’s reported figures.

net income/total stockholders equity=631.1%

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Lowe's Companies’s 10-Q, filed May 26, 2022, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Lowe's Companies's return on equity?: Lowe's Companies (LOW) reported return on equity of 631.1% in Q1 2021.
What does return on equity mean?: How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?: Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?: Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.