Lowe`s Companies Inc vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Lowe`s Companies Inc trades at $203.98 (market cap $114.78B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $115.92. The key difference: Lowe`s Companies Inc pays a 2.44% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Lowe`s Companies Inc nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LOW | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $114.78B | — |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | — |
52-Week High | $287.39 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $204.76 | $83.59 |
Enterprise Value | $156.54B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.44% | — |
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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 →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Information Technology 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the information technology sector, as classified under the GICS. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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