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Home Improvement & Specialty Retail

Lowe’s

Parent: Lowe’s Companies, Inc. · Public

NYSE: LOW$232.10+3.4%close Nov. 9, 2026
Credit ratingBBB+ Investment grade
S&P BBB+Moody’s Baa1
AAAAAABBBBBBCCCD
Investment gradeHigh yield

S&P Global, as of Aug. 27, 2026 · Outlook stable. Source: Lowe’s Form 10-Q (as of Aug. 27, 2026)

Founded1921Source: Wikidata
EmployeesNot verifiedNo verified source
Locations1,759Jan. 30, 2026; source: Lowe’s Form 10-K (XBRL)
HeadquartersMooresville, North CarolinaHome Improvement & Specialty Retail

New Initiatives

How the real estate strategy is changing: openings, closures, formats, remodels, relocations and refranchising.

  • Lowe’s completed its $8.8 billion acquisition of Foundation Building Materials.

    Source: Lowe’s

Lowe’s is the second-largest U.S. home improvement retailer. It expanded its professional business in 2025 with the purchases of Foundation Building Materials and Artisan Design Group.

Store count

1,759 as of Jan. 30, 2026
  1. 1,8572016
  2. 2,1292017
  3. 2,1522018
  4. 1,7592026

Total stores. Counts as reported at each period end. Sources: LOW Form 10-K, fiscal year ended 2016-01-29; LOW Form 10-K, fiscal year ended 2017-02-03; LOW Form 10-K, fiscal year ended 2018-02-02; LOW Form 10-K, fiscal year ended 2026-01-30.

What’s changing

  1. M&A

    Lowe’s completed its $8.8 billion acquisition of Foundation Building Materials. Source: Lowe’s

SEC Filings

Annual reports filed by Lowe’s Companies, Inc.. All filings on EDGAR

PeriodFormFiledDocument
Fiscal year ended Jan. 30, 202610-KMar. 23, 2026View on sec.gov
Fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 202510-KMar. 24, 2025View on sec.gov
Fiscal year ended Feb. 2, 202410-KMar. 25, 2024View on sec.gov
Fiscal year ended Feb. 3, 202310-KMar. 27, 2023View on sec.gov
Latest quarter, period ended July 31, 202610-QAug. 27, 2026View on sec.gov

Credit ratings

AgencyRatingOutlookAs ofSource
S&P GlobalBBB+StableAug. 27, 2026Lowe’s Form 10-Q (as of Aug. 27, 2026)
Moody’sBaa1StableAug. 27, 2026Lowe’s Form 10-Q (as of Aug. 27, 2026)

Bond market context

Issuer bond yieldUnavailable. No free, licensed source for individual bond yields.
BBB index effective yield5.95% (Nov. 6, 2026; ICE BofA BBB US Corporate Index)
BBB index spread (OAS)116 bps over Treasuries; 104 bps a year earlier (FRED)
10-year Treasury4.88% (Nov. 9, 2026)

The index row shows the yield on BBB-rated U.S. corporate bonds as a group, the closest free benchmark for this rating category. It is not the yield on this company’s own bonds.

Share prices, Yahoo Finance, as of Nov. 9, 2026. Bond index yields and spreads, ICE BofA US corporate and high yield indices, ICE Data Indices, LLC, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 10-year yield, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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