LOWLowe's

Consumer Cyclical

$198.71-17% 1Y

$198.71

$179.4552 weeks$286.02

Is the price fair?

Good

Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.

2 good, 1 neutral

What the price assumes~+3% a year

Priced for ~3% a year FCF growth. Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 1% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 83% of its own historyderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 16.8 vs a 18.8 median over 41 quarters (−11% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)14.2×

Sector median 15.0× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Jul 31, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)better than 66% of the market

FCF yieldbetter than 66% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What LOW's price assumes

Lowe's trades at 16.8× earnings against 18.0× for the median Consumer Cyclical name, cheaper than its own group.

16.8

Trailing P/E · Consumer Cyclical median 18.0 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales: 1.23
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 6.3%
Free cash flow yield · Consumer Cyclical median 6.4%
Growth the price implies: +2.6%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +2.6% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +1.8% a year over the last three.

Details›

EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026: 14.2
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026: 1.61
Consumer Cyclical median P/E317 names: 18.0
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months: $7.00B
Market capitalisation561.1 million shares, counted Aug 25, 2026: $111.5B
3-year revenue growth: −1.0%
3-year free cash flow growth: +1.8%

What the market has paid for these earnings: 41 quarters of its own multiple × $11.83 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$211.80
Its own P/E history, median	$222.30
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$244.74
52-week range	$179.45 – $286.02
Today	$198.71

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.