Lowe’s
Home improvement retail · United States
Lowe’s is the world’s second-largest home improvement retailer, selling appliances, building products, tools and décor to homeowners and small contractors in about 1,760 U.S. stores and online, and since 2025 also supplies large builders through the FBM and ADG branch networks.
What makes it different
Lowe’s owns almost nine in ten of its stores.
89%Stores ownedas of 2026-01-30
Owning the buildings holds occupancy and facility costs to 2.3% of retail sales and gives the company a large property base.
How big it is
How big is Lowe’s?
$86.3BNet salesFY2025
1,759Stores2026
276,000Associates2026
How it makes money FY2025
Décor, building products and hardlines, now plus Pro branches.
- Home Décor37%$31.5B
- Building Products31%$26.5B
- Hardlines29%$24.2B
- Branch businesses3%$2.2B
How the business works
Sell to homeowners. Win the Pro.
- 1Appliances and home projects
- 2Through independent contractors
- 3Builders via acquired branches
Lowe’s leans more on DIY homeowners than its rival, so it bought distributors to reach large builders.
Who owns it
- The Vanguard Group10%
- BlackRock, Inc.7.1%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.6.6%
CEO: Marvin R. Ellison
Who it competes with
AmazonKey moments
- 1921L.S. Lowe opens a hardware store
- 1946Carl Buchan focuses on home improvement
- 1961Lowe’s becomes a public company
- 1982First billion-dollar sales year
- 1995Lowes.com launches
Sources
Every number on this page comes from Lowe’s's own reports.
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What Lowe’s tracks18 metrics
Stores
Pro branch locations
Customer transactions
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from2 regions
United States
Canada
The full timeline20 moments
2024
2025
2026
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