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Lowe's Companies LOW Return on invested capital

Return on invested capital at other companies

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15.3%-2.9pp
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15.3%-1.2pp
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21.6%-5.2pp
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Tractor Supply CompanyTSCO
13.8%-1.6pp
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14%-3.8pp
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Ferguson EnterprisesFERG
19.1%

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 invested capital?
Lowe's Companies (LOW) reported return on invested capital of 30.9% in Q1 2026.
How has Lowe's Companies's return on invested capital changed year-over-year?
Lowe's Companies's return on invested capital decreased by 21.8% year-over-year, from 39.6% to 30.9%.
What is the long-term trend for Lowe's Companies's return on invested capital?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Lowe's Companies's return on invested capital has grown at a -5.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 162.2% to 129.6%.
What does return on invested capital mean?
The after-tax return the business earns on all the capital — debt and equity — invested in it.
How do you interpret return on invested capital?
The cleanest measure of business quality: ROIC sustained above the cost of capital creates value, below it destroys value. Compare against WACC, not against zero.
How does return on invested capital compare across companies?
Highly comparable across companies as a quality screen. Sector-sensitive definitions of invested capital mean banks/insurers are best excluded.