Lowe`s Companies Inc vs Micron Technology, Inc. — how do they compare? Lowe`s Companies Inc trades at $203.98 (market cap $114.78B), while Micron Technology, Inc. trades at $982 (market cap $977.44B). The key difference: Micron Technology, Inc. is far larger — about 8.5× Lowe`s Companies Inc's market cap, and Lowe`s Companies Inc pays the higher dividend (2.44%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LOW | MU | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $114.78B | $977.44B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Technology |
52-Week High | $287.39 | $1.21K |
52-Week Low | $204.76 | $104.88 |
Enterprise Value | $156.54B | $957.80B |
Dividend Yield | 2.44% | 0.06% |
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Lowe's is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world, operating 1,969 stores and servicing around 230 dealer-owned stores throughout the United States and Canada. The firm's stores offer products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair, and remodeling, with maintenance and repair accounting for two thirds of products sold. Lowe's targets retail do-it-yourself (around 75% of sales) and do-it-for-me customers as well as commercial and professional business clients (around 25% of sales). We estimate Lowe's captures a low-double-digit share of the domestic home improvement market, based on U.S. Census data and management's estimates for market size.
Read more on LOW →Micron historically focused on designing and manufacturing DRAM for PCs. The firm then expanded into the NAND flash memory market. It increased its DRAM scale with the purchase of Elpida (completed in mid-2013) and Inotera (completed in December 2016). The firm's DRAM and NAND products tailored to PCs, data centers, smartphones, game consoles, automotives, and other computing devices.
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