Lowe`s Companies Inc vs United Microelectronics Corp — how do they compare? Lowe`s Companies Inc trades at $203.98 (market cap $114.78B), while United Microelectronics Corp trades at $21.14 (market cap $51.00B). The key difference: Lowe`s Companies Inc is far larger — about 2.3× United Microelectronics Corp's market cap, and Lowe`s Companies Inc pays the higher dividend (2.44%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LOW | UMC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $114.78B | $51.00B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Technology |
52-Week High | $287.39 | $28.02 |
52-Week Low | $204.76 | $6.58 |
Enterprise Value | $156.54B | $48.57B |
Dividend Yield | 2.44% | 2.03% |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 →Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2021, according to Gartner, after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.
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