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5/9/2008 4:02 PM

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (LOW)

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The Company is a home improvement retailer, with specific emphasis on retail do-it-yourself customers, do-it-for-me customers who utilize its installation services, and Commercial Business Customers.

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Buffett Stock (50), Large Cap (467), North Carolina (10), Business Week 50 (50), S&P 500 (484), It's an Adjective! (19), Home Improvement (13)
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Lowe's Companies, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $24.20
Last Trade Time: 5/9/2008 4:02 PM
Open: $0.00
Previous Close: $24.13
Daily Range: $23.77 - $24.59
52-Week Range: $19.94 - $33.19
Volume: 10,390,562
Market Cap: $35.27B
P/E Ratio: 12.70
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Avatar sethatk (48.55) Submitted: 3/26/08 6:05 PM

I prefer shopping at Lowes over Home Depot, they are more organized, and customer service is better. That said I think over the next couple of years as the housing market recovers both will go up. This competion could be reminscent of Walmart vs Kmart.

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Avatar jstegma (99.50) Submitted: 4/02/08 6:11 PM

Flip this house is gone, at least in the real world. I don't know if the show is still on TV or not. That show was better than any paid ad Lowes and HD could ever dream of. "Spend $30k on your kitchen remodel - after all, it's an investment. See, these people here just made $50k in 25 days remod...More

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Avatar WiseChoice4u2 (64.61) Submitted: 5/08/08 7:01 PM : Outperform Start Price: $23.89 LOW Score: 0.94

Set to move with the rebound. Great fundamentals. Home materials purchasing moving in this direction. Great for the long haul.

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Avatar Billybob402 (< 20) Submitted: 5/08/08 10:26 AM : Outperform Start Price: $24.54 LOW Score: -1.02

As a former HD exec, I now shop at Lowes. They care more about being in stock, customer service, store presentation. Simply put: they are better at what HD invented. HD is pathetic now.

But here is the bigger point. I ran stores in up economies and down. We made money every year. Sales volume was impacted by peoples wallets for sure, but here's the bigger point. Despite all the best efforts of HD and Low, the vast majority of home builders do not use these guys. They work from local lumber yards that have contractor desks that really know what they are doing and deliver on a dime (same day), always have the right product, and even have a sales force in the field to see what their customers really need. They have boom trucks that can put sheet rock loads where they need to go (ever move some "rock" from the driveway to the second floor by hand?).

For all their feeble attempts at capturing the home building biz, these two companies are miserable at it. The HD and LOW business is completely driven by the DYI and small remodeler customer. So guess what's going to happen when we realize that there really isn't a recession (or a short mild thing)? Folks will pick up the pace on their home improvement of course. Everyones favorite pastime.

My thought: buy HD to trade (lot's of people believe the old myth, especially analysts). Buy LOW to own.

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Avatar KipLargo (80.51) Submitted: 5/05/08 6:13 PM : Underperform Start Price: $25.35 LOW Score: 3.68


People buy houses, fix them up, then sit in them with little major repairs. Seeing as fewer houses will be sold, and most people do the most fixing up in the first year of ownership, I see little revenue for the long foreseeable future.

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Avatar dpid (59.71) Submitted: 5/05/08 5:57 PM : Underperform Start Price: $25.35 LOW Score: 3.68

Retailing down for this year, people won't be doing home improvements....

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Avatar BiLoandWise (93.03) Submitted: 5/04/08 8:08 PM : Outperform Start Price: $26.16 LOW Score: -5.97

"What goes down will come up" -- at least when we're talking about the stock of a wel-run corporation whose inventory will be in demand in the future. Gobble up the bargain.

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