Lowe's Companies, Inc. (LOW)

Downthumb. Overrated company with slow growth, nominal everything on the cash flow and balance sheet. Low short base. Company is slowing store openings.

Not sure about future earnings growth potential with the anouncement of cutting back construction to only 35 stores in North America this year.

disappointing earnings

Retrenchment of market before end of month/quarter rally.

slightly better than HD, but not going anywhere soon.

Flat sales, decreasing margins. You do the math. Underperform.

I like Lowe's a lot. Unfortunately, the tide is against them for some time to come. House deflation and wealth destruction overwhelm monetary and fiscal stimulous. Inventory overhangs will be with us for few years.

short term this stock will suck
it is well known spendings are at a minimum these days

Bear Market

With those new unemployment numbers I don't think we have a ton of American's thinking Gee time to go to Lowes and get some more stuff, oh yeah we can't put it on that HELOC. MACD divergence looks nice also

people generally don't remodel their houses when they can't even afford to pay the mortgage.

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is up at the moment

This stock will exceed the market in falling through the course of the impending recession due to decreased home-improvement funds, the low price of buying already standing homes, and the lack of expansion and building on behalf of existing and new businesses.

The downturn in the housing market has caused major home improvement stores to suffer. Although Lowe's stocks will rise over the summer as home owners engage in weather-friendly home improvements, the overall success of the stock depends on a upturn in the market. Also, unless Lowe's begins to offer more ways for home owners to increase the engery-efficieny of their homes, it will not be able to keep up with the home improvements demands that remain in the market.

Will underperform until housing turns around. Inflation is still a danger as well and will continue to impact discretionary income.

earnings forecast

Until things with the economy change people are not building as many houses. Higher energy prices make their prices go up. Lumber is expensive and Lowe's deals with a lot of contractors. The Lowe's in my home town has not been as busy in the past several months as it had been a year ago or more. When the market turns around then maybe but not now.

lowes will underperform the market. lowes along with other homebuilding supply retail stores will suffer losses with the suffering housing markets. Homestarts are down and consumers and less likely and less confident to spend and put money into their homes.