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Lowe’s serves homeowners and renters repairing, remodeling or decorating their homes, along with tradespeople, remodelers and property managers buying supplies for their work. Its U.S. stores and online business, including Lowes.com, generate the vast majority of sales. Customers mainly pay for products; installation services, carried out by independent contractors, contribute a smaller share.
Through its acquired Foundation Building Materials and Artisan Design Group businesses, Lowe’s also serves larger professional customers. Their branches in the United States and Canada supply building materials and provide design, distribution and installation services for home builders and property managers working on residential and commercial projects. This business is much smaller than its home-improvement retail operation.
Sales depend on customers undertaking home-improvement projects and on Lowe’s keeping the right products available through reliable suppliers and inventory management. For installation work, Lowe’s acts as the general contractor and must meet licensing, permitting and lead-safe requirements, even when independent contractors perform the work.
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Home Depot competes directly with Lowe’s for homeowners and professional contractors buying home improvement products, building materials and installation services. Watch its efforts to become contractors’ preferred supplier across their projects: those are customers Lowe’s also wants.
Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. competes with Lowe’s for homeowners and professional installers buying flooring, installation materials and tools. Its hard-surface flooring sales offer a focused view of the market Lowe’s serves through its flooring business.
Builders FirstSource competes with Lowe’s for professional customers buying building materials and installation services for residential construction and remodeling. Its sales of lumber, windows and doors offer a view of demand among homebuilders that Lowe’s also serves through its branches.
Sherwin-Williams both competes with Lowe’s through its paint stores and supplies paint for Lowe’s to sell through its Consumer Brands business.
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. depends on Lowe’s as a buyer of its faucets, doors, decking and security products: Lowe’s accounted for 11% of its 2025 net sales. Its Water and Outdoors sales are worth watching for the repair, remodeling and outdoor-improvement spending that also supports Lowe’s.
Masco’s demand for the faucets, bath fixtures, paint and hardware it makes reflects the homeowner repair and remodeling spending that drives Lowe’s sales. Watch its Decorative Architectural Products sales, which normally strengthen in the second and third calendar quarters alongside peak repair and remodeling activity.
JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. supplies doors and windows for Lowe’s to sell, and Lowe’s accounted for approximately 13% of its 2025 consolidated net revenue. Its North American door and window business offers a view of residential construction and remodeling demand relevant to Lowe’s building-products sales.
Armstrong World Industries supplies ceiling and architectural products to Lowe’s and its Foundation Building Materials business, which together accounted for more than 10% of Armstrong’s 2025 consolidated gross sales. Watch its ceiling business for a view of the products flowing through Lowe’s acquired building-materials distributor.
Masco Corporation earningsMAS
Masco’s Decorative Architectural Products sales will offer a read on whether home repair and remodeling demand is supporting categories Lowe’s sells.
Read Masco’s Decorative Architectural Products sales alongside its description of repair and remodeling demand. Stronger sales suggest the market for projects Lowe’s also serves has support; weaker sales point to possible softening, but Masco’s sales are not a measure of Lowe’s sales.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For Lowe’s, the Fed’s policy rate tracks the short-term cost of money, which can raise or lower interest paid on debt that reprices and on new borrowing or refinancing.
Expected4.0%Last release4.0%
If it comes in above expectations
If the policy rate is above expectations, Lowe’s could pay more to refinance or borrow, leaving less operating cash for its stores, supply chain and other investments.
If it comes in below expectations
If the policy rate is below expectations, borrowing and refinancing could cost Lowe’s less, easing pressure on cash available for its business and investments.
Builders FirstSource, Inc. earningsBLDR
Builders FirstSource’s lumber, window and door sales will show whether homebuilders and professional customers served by Lowe’s branches are sustaining demand for building materials.
Read Builders FirstSource’s lumber, window and door sales alongside its account of homebuilding and remodeling demand. If both hold up, projects are supporting the builders and professionals Lowe’s serves through its branches; if both weaken, those customers may have fewer material needs, but that alone does not show Lowe’s has lost them.
JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. earningsJELD
JELD-WEN’s North American door and window business will show whether demand is holding up in building-product categories Lowe’s sells and offer a view of a key supplier.
Read JELD-WEN’s North American door and window sales alongside its account of residential construction and remodeling demand. Strength in both suggests steadier demand for products Lowe’s also sells; weakness points to pressure in that category. JELD-WEN also sells through other channels, so its results are not a direct measure of Lowe’s sales.
JOLTs Job Openings (Sep)
For Lowe’s, job openings track employers’ demand for workers; stronger hiring demand can push up wages and benefits for the store and support staff it needs to serve customers.
Expected7.0MLast release7.079M
If it comes in above expectations
More openings than expected would point to stronger competition for workers, potentially raising Lowe’s labor costs or making it harder to staff stores and maintain customer service.
If it comes in below expectations
If the reading is below the 7.0M estimate, it is below the previous 7.079M. Fewer openings than expected would point to a looser labor market, which could ease wage pressure and make it easier for Lowe’s to staff stores.
Home Depot, Inc. earningsHD
Home Depot’s report will show whether professional contractors are giving more of their project spending to a retailer competing with Lowe’s for the same customers.
Watch Home Depot’s professional-customer business and any signs that contractors are relying on it for more of their projects. If contractors buy more project supplies there, Lowe’s faces a stronger rival for the same customers; if contractor purchases weaken, the clearer signal is softer professional demand, not necessarily lost share for Lowe’s.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
For Lowe’s, retail sales track how much consumers spend at retailers; stronger spending can support purchases of the home-improvement products and services Lowe’s sells, while weaker spending can weigh on them.
Stronger retail sales suggest consumers are spending more, which may support purchases of Lowe’s home-improvement products and services; weaker sales suggest spending pressure that may weigh on those purchases.
Lowe's Companies Inc. earningsThis company
Lowe’s report will show whether sales are stabilizing because more customers are shopping or because each trip brings in more spending.
Read same-store sales alongside customer transactions and average ticket, or spending per transaction. If transactions recover while the average ticket rises, more customers are supporting sales growth; if the ticket rises but transactions fall, fewer shopping trips are carrying sales and demand has not broadly recovered.
