Lowe’s Cos., Inc. (LOW) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $221.69, with 3.3 million shares of worth about $731.64 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 0.35% during that period and on Wednesday February 7 the price saw a gain of about 1.64%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 601.00M shares, out of which, 574.57M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 42 times over the past 12 months. They bought 378,774 shares in 23 of the transactions. In 19 selling transactions, insiders dumped 241,898 shares.
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However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 222.35, or with a gain of 1.64%. Stock saw a price change of 4.16% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 2.10%. Year-to-date (YTD), LOW shares are showing a performance of -0.39% which increased to 2.70% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $181.85 but also hit the highest price of $237.21 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Lowe’s Cos., Inc. shares is 2.98 million. The stock is currently trading 2.23% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.21% for SMA50 and it goes to 4.06% higher than SMA200.
Lowe’s Cos., Inc. (NYSE: LOW) currently have 601.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 76.13% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $127.50B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.10. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 17.09, while it has posted earnings per share of $12.98 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.88 and has Quick Ratio of 0.15. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for LOW, volatility over the week remained 2.55% while standing at 1.93% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Lowe’s Cos., Inc. (LOW) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $ServiceNow, Inc. in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $790.39 and it is $Stocks for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $Dow Inc. which is $Lowe’s Companies, Inc. at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -5.16% while it is estimated to decrease by -2.22% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 4.40% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 19.98% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
