Lowe’s Cos., Inc (NYSE: LOW) – Not A Clear Buying Opportunity?

Lowe’s Cos., Inc (LOW) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $227.37, with 4.54 million shares of worth about $1.03 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -15.60% during that period and on May 21, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.68%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 560.00M shares, out of which, 559.05M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -0.50% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 3.79%. Year-to-date (YTD), LOW shares are showing a performance of -7.87% which decreased to -1.62% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $206.38 but also hit the highest price of $287.01 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Lowe’s Cos., Inc shares is 2.87 million. The stock is currently trading 0.37% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 0.97% for SMA50 and it goes to -8.80% lower than SMA200.

Lowe’s Cos., Inc (NYSE: LOW) currently have 560.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 77.58% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $127.26B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.93. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 18.84, while it has posted earnings per share of $12.07 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.69 and has Quick Ratio of 0.19. 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 2.58% while standing at 2.14% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 2.11% while it is estimated to increase by 8.90% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 6.99% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 17.37% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by KeyBanc Capital Markets on April 25, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $266 to it. Coverage by Telsey Advisory Group stated Lowe’s Cos., Inc (LOW) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on November 08, 2024, suggesting a price target of $305 for the stock. On October 22, 2024, Bernstein Initiated their recommendations, while on October 09, 2024, Loop Capital Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $300. Stock get a Market perform rating from Telsey Advisory Group on October 02, 2024.

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