Lowe’s Cos., Inc (NYSE: LOW) on Monday, soared 1.16% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $261.94. Within the past 52 weeks, LOW’s price has moved between $189.05 and $287.01.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Consumer Cyclical sector was 4.52%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -9.84%. With a float of $566.71 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $574.00 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 284000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 31.67%, operating margin of 12.57%, and the pretax margin is 10.86%.
Lowe’s Cos., Inc (LOW) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Home Improvement Retail industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Lowe’s Cos., Inc is 0.10%, while institutional ownership is 76.24%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 03 ’24, was worth 1,082,974. In this transaction EVP, Stores of this company sold 4,000 shares at a rate of $270.74, taking the stock ownership to the 54,099 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 03 ’24, when Company’s EVP, Chief Information Officer sold 26,186 for $271.73, making the entire transaction worth $7,115,522. This insider now owns 30,159 shares in total.
Lowe’s Cos., Inc (LOW) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -9.84% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 2.63% during the next five years compared to 35.96% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Lowe’s Cos., Inc (NYSE: LOW) Trading Performance Indicators
Lowe’s Cos., Inc (LOW) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.30 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.79. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 19.84.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 12.06, a number that is poised to hit 2.81 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.62 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Lowe’s Cos., Inc (LOW)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 2.44 million, its volume of 2.32 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 19.59%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.95.
During the past 100 days, Lowe’s Cos., Inc’s (LOW) raw stochastic average was set at 70.71%, which indicates a significant increase from 19.06% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.83% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 22.65% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $263.13, while its 200-day Moving Average is $239.35. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $267.57 in the near term. At $270.17, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $272.76. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $262.38, it is likely to go to the next support level at $259.79. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $257.19.
Lowe’s Cos., Inc (NYSE: LOW) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 150.38 billion based on 567,294K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 86,377 M and income totals 7,726 M. The company made 23,586 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 2,383 M in sales during its previous quarter.
