Is it safe?
Can LOW take a bad year?
Lowe's carries $36.7B of net debt at 2.99× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$36.7B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.99×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.60× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.13
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 393×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $37.9B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.24B
- Net debt
- $36.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $12.3B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $10.2B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.09×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −49%
- Below its 52-week high
- −26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Consumer Cyclical
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