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LOW vs. COST, TGLS, BLDR, FND, GMS, HD, MAS, TGT, WMT, and WSM

Should you be buying Lowe's Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lowe's Companies include Costco Wholesale (COST), Tecnoglass (TGLS), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Floor & Decor (FND), GMS (GMS), Home Depot (HD), Masco (MAS), Target (TGT), Walmart (WMT), and Williams-Sonoma (WSM).

Lowe's Companies vs. Its Competitors

Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and profitability.

Lowe's Companies currently has a consensus target price of $271.12, suggesting a potential upside of 19.53%. Costco Wholesale has a consensus target price of $1,037.48, suggesting a potential upside of 10.90%. Given Lowe's Companies' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lowe's Companies is more favorable than Costco Wholesale.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lowe's Companies
1 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58
Costco Wholesale
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.68

74.1% of Lowe's Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Costco Wholesale shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Lowe's Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Costco Wholesale shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Lowe's Companies has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costco Wholesale has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Costco Wholesale had 82 more articles in the media than Lowe's Companies. MarketBeat recorded 117 mentions for Costco Wholesale and 35 mentions for Lowe's Companies. Costco Wholesale's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Lowe's Companies' score of 1.11 indicating that Costco Wholesale is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lowe's Companies
27 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Costco Wholesale
91 Very Positive mention(s)
10 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Lowe's Companies has a net margin of 8.22% compared to Costco Wholesale's net margin of 2.92%. Costco Wholesale's return on equity of 30.48% beat Lowe's Companies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lowe's Companies8.22% -49.12% 15.07%
Costco Wholesale 2.92%30.48%10.52%

Lowe's Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Costco Wholesale pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Lowe's Companies pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Costco Wholesale pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lowe's Companies has increased its dividend for 53 consecutive years and Costco Wholesale has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Lowe's Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Costco Wholesale has higher revenue and earnings than Lowe's Companies. Lowe's Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costco Wholesale, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lowe's Companies$83.67B1.52$6.96B$12.0718.79
Costco Wholesale$254.45B1.63$7.37B$17.6353.06

Summary

Costco Wholesale beats Lowe's Companies on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LOW and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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LOW vs. The Competition

MetricLowe's CompaniesRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$127.12B$45.01B$26.85B$21.13B
Dividend Yield2.10%3.49%177.01%3.58%
P/E Ratio18.7919.9630.6327.87
Price / Sales1.521.166.3559.63
Price / Cash14.6712.7252.5223.02
Price / Book-9.009.745.704.69
Net Income$6.96B$2.36B$880.44M$995.51M
7 Day Performance3.51%5.45%2.35%1.64%
1 Month Performance2.75%12.48%7.94%5.92%
1 Year Performance-3.39%-10.38%29.65%11.50%

Lowe's Companies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LOW
Lowe's Companies
4.9435 of 5 stars
$226.83
+0.6%
$271.12
+19.5%
-2.6%$127.12B$83.67B18.79270,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.7125 of 5 stars
$948.44
-0.3%
$1,037.48
+9.4%
+12.4%$420.62B$254.45B53.80333,000Trending News
TGLS
Tecnoglass
2.103 of 5 stars
$74.38
-0.7%
$83.00
+11.6%
+50.0%$3.50B$919.84M23.256,910
BLDR
Builders FirstSource
4.6424 of 5 stars
$122.29
-0.7%
$159.42
+30.4%
-13.7%$13.51B$16.40B15.6829,000Upcoming Earnings
FND
Floor & Decor
3.4679 of 5 stars
$76.92
-2.2%
$90.33
+17.4%
-13.6%$8.28B$4.46B40.7013,690Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
GMS
GMS
2.2144 of 5 stars
$109.81
0.0%
$101.11
-7.9%
+21.9%$4.18B$5.51B37.997,113
HD
Home Depot
4.8517 of 5 stars
$364.65
+1.5%
$426.77
+17.0%
+6.5%$362.80B$159.51B24.74520,700Positive News
MAS
Masco
4.3252 of 5 stars
$65.25
-0.5%
$74.03
+13.5%
-4.4%$13.76B$7.83B17.8218,000Upcoming Earnings
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TGT
Target
4.65 of 5 stars
$102.11
-1.3%
$115.65
+13.3%
-27.6%$46.39B$106.57B11.22440,000
WMT
Walmart
4.6598 of 5 stars
$95.76
+0.7%
$106.67
+11.4%
+36.9%$764.17B$680.99B40.922,100,000Trending News
Insider Trade
WSM
Williams-Sonoma
4.6989 of 5 stars
$172.53
+1.3%
$176.75
+2.4%
+19.5%$21.22B$7.78B19.5419,600Positive News
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This page (NYSE:LOW) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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