Lowe`s Companies Inc vs Teradyne, Inc. — how do they compare? Lowe`s Companies Inc trades at $203.98 (market cap $114.78B), while Teradyne, Inc. trades at $374.9 (market cap $52.25B). The key difference: Lowe`s Companies Inc is far larger — about 2.2× Teradyne, 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 | TER | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $114.78B | $52.25B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Technology |
52-Week High | $287.39 | $483.84 |
52-Week Low | $204.76 | $90.15 |
Enterprise Value | $156.54B | $52.08B |
Dividend Yield | 2.44% | 0.16% |
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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 →Teradyne provides testing equipment, including automated test equipment for semiconductors, system testing for hard disk drives, circuit boards, and electronics systems and wireless testing for devices. The firm entered the industrial automation market in 2015, into which it sells collaborative and autonomous robots for factory applications. Teradyne serves numerous end markets and geographies directly and indirectly with its products, but its most significant exposure is to semiconductor testing, which made up 71% of 2021 sales. Teradyne serves vertically integrated, fabless, and foundry chipmakers with its equipment.
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