— Diluted EPS of $2.88; Adjusted Diluted EPS1 of $3.06 —
— Comparable Sales increased 0.4% —
— Updates Full Year 2025 Outlook —
MOORESVILLE, N.C., Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) today reported net earnings of $1.6 billion and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.88 for the quarter ended Oct. 31, 2025, compared to diluted EPS of $2.99 in the third quarter of 2024. During the third quarter, the company recognized $129 million in pre-tax expenses associated with the acquisitions of Foundation Building Materials (FBM) and Artisan Design Group (ADG). Excluding these expenses, third quarter 2025 adjusted diluted EPS1 increased 5.9% to $3.06 compared to the prior-year adjusted diluted EPS1.
Total sales for the quarter were $20.8 billion, compared to $20.2 billion in the prior-year quarter. Comparable sales for the quarter increased 0.4%, driven by 11.4% online sales growth, double-digit growth in home services and continued growth in Pro sales.
“The company delivered another quarter of positive comp sales, and we’re pleased to start November with positive comps as well, despite headwinds related to hurricane activity in the prior year. With the closing of the FBM acquisition last month, we look forward to enhancing our offering to Pro customers and creating more sustainable, long-term sales and profit expansion for the company,” said Marvin R. Ellison, Lowe’s chairman, president and CEO. “I would like to thank our associates for their hard work and dedication to the business.”
As of Oct. 31, 2025, Lowe’s operated 1,756 stores, representing 195.8 million square feet of retail selling space.
Capital Allocation
The company remains committed to a disciplined capital allocation strategy focused on driving long-term shareholder value. During the quarter, the company invested $8.8 billion for the acquisition of FBM and paid $673 million in dividends.
The company is updating its outlook for the operating results of full year 2025 to reflect the ongoing uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment. The updated outlook also includes expectations for FBM.
Adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin and adjusted diluted EPS are non-GAAP financial measures that exclude the transaction costs, purchase accounting adjustments and intangible asset amortization related to the acquisition of FBM and ADG. The company does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis where it is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items (which may be significant) without unreasonable effort.
Full Year 2025 Outlook
- Total sales of $86.0 billion (previously $84.5 to $85.5 billion)
- Comparable sales expected to be flat as compared to prior year (previously flat to up +1%)
- Adjusted operating income as a percentage of sales (adjusted operating margin) of 12.1%
(previously 12.2% to 12.3%) - Net interest expense of approximately $1.4 billion (previously $1.3 billion)
- Effective income tax rate of approximately 24.0% (previously 24.5%)
- Adjusted diluted earnings per share of approximately $12.25 (previously $12.20 to $12.45)
- Capital expenditures of up to $2.5 billion
A conference call to discuss third quarter 2025 operating results is scheduled for today, Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 9 a.m. ET. The conference call will be available by webcast and can be accessed by visiting Lowe’s website at ir.lowes.com and clicking on Lowe’s Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call Webcast. Supplemental slides will be available prior to the start of the conference call. A replay of the call will be archived at ir.lowes.com.
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week, with total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,700 home improvement stores, 530 branches and 130 distribution centers. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements including words such as “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “plan”, “desire”, “project”, “estimate”, “intend”, “will”, “should”, “could”, “would”, “may”, “strategy”, “potential”, “opportunity”, “outlook”, “scenario”, “guidance”, and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve, among other things, expectations, projections, and assumptions about future financial and operating results, objectives (including objectives related to environmental and social matters), business outlook, priorities, sales growth, shareholder value, capital expenditures, cash flows, the housing market, the home improvement industry, demand for products and services including customer acceptance of new offerings and initiatives, macroeconomic conditions and consumer spending, share repurchases, and Lowe’s strategic initiatives, including those relating to acquisitions and dispositions and the impact of such transactions on our strategic and operational plans and financial results. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and we can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements.
A wide variety of potential risks, uncertainties, and other factors could materially affect our ability to achieve the results either expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, changes in general economic conditions, such as volatility and/or lack of liquidity from time to time in U.S. and world financial markets and the consequent reduced availability and/or higher cost of borrowing to Lowe’s and its customers, slower rates of growth in real disposable personal income that could affect the rate of growth in consumer spending, inflation and its impacts on discretionary spending and on our costs, shortages, and other disruptions in the labor supply, interest rate and currency fluctuations, home price appreciation or decreasing housing turnover, age of housing stock, the availability of consumer credit and of mortgage financing, trade policy changes or additional tariffs, outbreaks of pandemics, fluctuations in fuel and energy costs, inflation or deflation of commodity prices, natural disasters, geopolitical or armed conflicts, acts of both domestic and international terrorism, and other factors that can negatively affect our customers.
Investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties, risks and potential events including, but not limited to, those described in “Item 1A – Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and as may be updated from time to time in Item 1A in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or other subsequent filings with the SEC. All such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update these statements other than as required by law.
1 Adjusted diluted earnings per share is a non-GAAP financial measure. Refer to the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures Reconciliation” section of this release for additional information, as well as reconciliations between the company’s GAAP and non-GAAP financial results.
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Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Current Earnings and Accumulated Deficit (Unaudited)
In Millions, Except Per Share and Percentage Data
Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
October 31, 2025
November 1, 2024
October 31, 2025
November 1, 2024
Current Earnings
Amount
% Sales
Amount
% Sales
Amount
% Sales
Amount
% Sales
Net sales
$ 20,813
100.00
$ 20,170
100.00
$ 65,701
100.00
$ 65,120
100.00
Cost of sales
13,697
65.81
13,374
66.31
43,497
66.20
43,340
66.55
Gross margin
7,116
34.19
6,796
33.69
22,204
33.80
21,780
33.45
Expenses:
Selling, general and administrative
4,160
19.99
3,827
18.97
12,381
18.85
11,860
18.22
Depreciation and amortization
475
2.28
433
2.15
1,378
2.10
1,284
1.97
Operating income
2,481
11.92
2,536
12.57
8,445
12.85
8,636
13.26
Interest – net
352
1.69
317
1.57
1,002
1.52
985
1.51
Pre-tax earnings
2,129
10.23
2,219
11.00
7,443
11.33
7,651
11.75
Income tax provision
513
2.46
524
2.59
1,789
2.72
1,818
2.79
Net earnings
$ 1,616
7.77
$ 1,695
8.41
$ 5,654
8.61
$ 5,833
8.96
Weighted average common shares outstanding – basic
559
565
559
568
Basic earnings per common share (1)
$ 2.88
$ 2.99
$ 10.09
$ 10.24
Weighted average common shares outstanding – diluted
560
566
560
569
Diluted earnings per common share (1)
$ 2.88
$ 2.99
$ 10.07
$ 10.22
Cash dividends per share
$ 1.20
$ 1.15
$ 3.55
$ 3.40
Accumulated Deficit
Balance at beginning of period
$ (12,108)
$ (14,342)
$ (14,799)
$ (15,637)
Net earnings
1,616
1,695
5,654
5,833
Cash dividends declared
(673)
(650)
(1,991)
(1,933)
Share repurchases
—
(696)
(29)
(2,256)
Balance at end of period
$ (11,165)
$ (13,993)
$ (11,165)
$ (13,993)
(1)
Under the two-class method, earnings per share is calculated using net earnings allocable to common shares, which is derived by reducing net earnings by the earnings allocable to participating securities. Net earnings allocable to common shares used in the basic and diluted earnings per share calculation were 1,612 million for the three months ended October 31, 2025, and 1,691 million for the three months ended November 1, 2024. Net earnings allocable to common shares used in the basic and diluted earnings per share calculation were 5,639 million for the nine months ended October 31, 2025, and 5,818 million for the nine months ended November 1, 2024.
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited)
In Millions, Except Percentage Data
Three Months Ended
Nine Months Ended
October 31, 2025
November 1, 2024
October 31, 2025
November 1, 2024
Amount
% Sales
Amount
% Sales
Amount
% Sales
Amount
% Sales
Net earnings
$ 1,616
7.77
$ 1,695
8.41
$ 5,654
8.61
$ 5,833
8.96
Cash flow hedges – net of tax
(7)
(0.04)
(3)
(0.02)
(14)
(0.02)
(9)
(0.02)
Other
1
—
—
—
1
—
1
—
Other comprehensive loss
(6)
(0.04)
(3)
(0.02)
(13)
(0.02)
(8)
(0.02)
Comprehensive income
$ 1,610
7.73
$ 1,692
8.39
$ 5,641
8.59
$ 5,825
8.94
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)
In Millions, Except Par Value Data
October 31, 2025
November 1, 2024
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 621
$ 3,271
Short-term investments
412
335
Receivables – net
1,216
108
Merchandise inventory – net
17,183
17,566
Other current assets
788
697
Total current assets
20,220
21,977
Property, less accumulated depreciation
18,309
17,586
Operating lease right-of-use assets
4,345
3,771
Long-term investments
280
312
Deferred income taxes – net
—
261
Intangible assets – net
5,994
281
Goodwill
3,982
311
Other assets
323
244
Total assets
$ 53,453
$ 44,743
Liabilities and shareholders’ deficit
Current liabilities:
Current maturities of long-term debt
$ 2,437
$ 2,576
Current operating lease liabilities
691
497
Accounts payable
10,236
10,602
Accrued compensation and employee benefits
1,023
828
Deferred revenue
1,537
1,359
Other current liabilities
3,527
3,585
Total current liabilities
19,451
19,447
Long-term debt, excluding current maturities
37,498
32,906
Noncurrent operating lease liabilities
4,070
3,741
Deferred income taxes – net
808
—
Deferred revenue – Lowe’s protection plans
1,273
1,260
Other liabilities
735
808
Total liabilities
63,835
58,162
Shareholders’ deficit:
Preferred stock, $5 par value: Authorized – 5.0 million shares; Issued and outstanding – none
—
—
Common stock, $0.50 par value: Authorized – 5.6 billion shares; Issued and outstanding – 561 million and 565 million, respectively
280
282
Capital in excess of par value
228
—
Accumulated deficit
(11,165)
(13,993)
Accumulated other comprehensive income
275
292
Total shareholders’ deficit
(10,382)
(13,419)
Total liabilities and shareholders’ deficit
$ 53,453
$ 44,743
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)
In Millions
Nine Months Ended
October 31, 2025
November 1, 2024
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net earnings
$ 5,654
$ 5,833
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
1,557
1,461
Noncash lease expense
405
392
Deferred income taxes
24
(10)
Loss on property and other assets – net
45
11
Gain on sale of business
—
(97)
Share-based payment expense
177
164
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Merchandise inventory – net
816
(672)
Other operating assets
26
114
Accounts payable
552
1,944
Other operating liabilities
(959)
(426)
Net cash provided by operating activities
8,297
8,714
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of investments
(1,290)
(999)
Proceeds from sale/maturity of investments
1,252
918
Capital expenditures
(1,610)
(1,379)
Proceeds from sale of property and other long-term assets
25
54
Proceeds from sale of business
—
97
Acquisitions of businesses – net
(10,055)
—
Other – net
(9)
(11)
Net cash used in investing activities
(11,687)
(1,320)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Net proceeds from issuance of debt
6,974
—
Repayment of debt
(2,568)
(522)
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under share-based payment plans
82
95
Cash dividend payments
(1,963)
(1,916)
Repurchases of common stock
(211)
(2,681)
Other – net
(64)
(20)
Net cash provided by/(used in) financing activities
2,250
(5,044)
Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents
(1,140)
2,350
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
1,761
921
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
$ 621
$ 3,271
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Non-GAAP Financial Measure Reconciliation (Unaudited)
To provide additional transparency, the Company has presented the non-GAAP financial measure of adjusted diluted earnings per share for the three months ended October 31, 2025 and November 1, 2024. This measure excludes the impact of certain items, further described below, not contemplated in Lowe’s Business Outlook to assist analysts and investors in understanding operational performance for the third quarter of fiscal 2025.
Fiscal 2025 Impacts
During fiscal 2025, the Company recognized financial impacts from the following:
- In the third quarter of fiscal 2025, the Company recognized pre-tax expenses of $129 million consisting of transaction costs and intangible asset amortization related to the acquisition of Artisan Design Group and Foundation Building Materials (Acquisition of businesses).
Fiscal 2024 Impacts:
During fiscal 2024, the Company recognized financial impacts from the following:
- In the third quarter of fiscal 2024, the Company recognized pre-tax income of $54 million consisting of a realized gain on the contingent consideration associated with the fiscal 2022 sale of the Canadian retail business (Canadian retail business transaction).
Adjusted diluted earnings per share should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful indicator of, the Company’s diluted earnings per share as prepared in accordance with GAAP. The Company’s methods of determining non-GAAP financial measures may differ from the method used by other companies and may not be comparable.
A reconciliation between the Company’s GAAP and non-GAAP financial results is shown below and available on the Company’s website at ir.lowes.com.
Three Months Ended
October 31, 2025
November 1, 2024
Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share
Pre-Tax
Earnings
Tax 1
Net
Earnings
Pre-Tax
Earnings
Tax 1
Net
Earnings
Diluted Earnings Per Share, As Reported
$ 2.88
$ 2.99
Acquisition of businesses
0.23
(0.05)
0.18
—
—
—
Canadian retail business transaction
—
—
—
(0.10)
—
(0.10)
Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share
$ 3.06
$ 2.89
1 Represents the corresponding tax benefit or expense specifically related to the items excluded from adjusted diluted earnings per share.
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