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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
GNRC Generac	$131.39 +0.0%	$147.21	$110.35 ▼ $195.94	$7.83B	1.5	883,894 shs	682,605 shs
HD Home Depot	$364.82 -0.9%	$399.01	$323.77 ▼ $439.37	$362.39B	1.09	3.37 million shs	3.36 million shs
LOW Lowe's Companies	$228.20 -1.9%	$251.15	$211.80 ▼ $287.01	$128.86B	1.12	2.29 million shs	2.83 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
GNRC Generac	+0.00%	+0.99%	-9.48%	-24.32%	+13.96%
HD Home Depot	-1.00%	-5.69%	-11.93%	-11.98%	-2.58%
LOW Lowe's Companies	-1.84%	-6.02%	-11.10%	-13.40%	-6.19%

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Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
GNRC Generac	4.636 of 5 stars	4.2	4.0	0.0	1.9	3.5	2.5	1.3
HD Home Depot	4.75 of 5 stars	3.4	5.0	4.2	2.1	4.1	1.7	0.6
LOW Lowe's Companies	4.8021 of 5 stars	3.3	4.0	4.2	1.6	4.1	1.7	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
GNRC Generac	2.48	Hold	$174.00	32.43% Upside
HD Home Depot	2.77	Moderate Buy	$436.50	19.65% Upside
LOW Lowe's Companies	2.52	Moderate Buy	$280.83	23.06% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest GNRC, LOW, and HD Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
3/3/2025	HD Home Depot	KGI Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong-Buy
2/27/2025	LOW Lowe's Companies	BNP Paribas Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong Sell
2/27/2025	LOW Lowe's Companies	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$292.00 ➝ $285.00
2/27/2025	LOW Lowe's Companies	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$308.00 ➝ $295.00
2/27/2025	LOW Lowe's Companies	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$307.00 ➝ $296.00
2/27/2025	LOW Lowe's Companies	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$305.00 ➝ $300.00
2/27/2025	LOW Lowe's Companies	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$305.00 ➝ $290.00
2/26/2025	HD Home Depot	Hsbc Global Res Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Moderate Sell ➝ Hold
2/26/2025	HD Home Depot	Robert W. Baird Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$440.00 ➝ $430.00
2/26/2025	HD Home Depot	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$455.00 ➝ $435.00
2/26/2025	HD Home Depot	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$431.00 ➝ $424.00

(Data available from 3/13/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
GNRC Generac	$4.30B	1.82	$9.78 per share	13.44	$41.89 per share	3.14
HD Home Depot	$159.51B	2.27	$17.15 per share	21.27	$1.05 per share	347.44
LOW Lowe's Companies	$83.67B	1.54	$15.53 per share	14.69	($26.17) per share	-8.72

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
GNRC Generac	$316.32M	$5.40	24.33	14.71	1.44	7.36%	18.17%	8.54%	4/28/2025 (Estimated)
HD Home Depot	$15.14B	$14.92	24.78	23.39	4.03	9.45%	452.60%	16.91%	5/13/2025 (Estimated)
LOW Lowe's Companies	$7.73B	$12.21	19.03	18.20	1.96	8.19%	-47.55%	15.28%	5/20/2025 (Estimated)

Latest GNRC, LOW, and HD Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
2/26/2025	Q4 2025	LOW Lowe's Companies	$1.83	$1.93	+$0.10	$1.99	$18.29 billion	$18.55 billion
2/25/2025	Q4 2025	HD Home Depot	$3.04	$3.13	+$0.09	$3.02	$39.15 billion	$39.70 billion
2/12/2025	Q4 2024	GNRC Generac	$2.49	$2.80	+$0.31	$2.15	$1.25 billion	N/A

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
GNRC Generac	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HD Home Depot	$9.20	2.52%	+10.89%	61.66%	16 Years
LOW Lowe's Companies	$4.60	2.02%	+14.89%	37.67%	53 Years

Latest GNRC, LOW, and HD Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/25/2025	HD Home Depot	quarterly	$2.30	2.41%	3/13/2025	3/13/2025	3/27/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
GNRC Generac	0.48	1.97	0.97
HD Home Depot	8.65	1.13	0.31
LOW Lowe's Companies	N/A	1.13	0.23

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Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
GNRC Generac	84.04%
HD Home Depot	70.86%
LOW Lowe's Companies	74.06%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
GNRC Generac	2.90%
HD Home Depot	0.10%
LOW Lowe's Companies	0.26%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
GNRC Generac	8,600	59.61 million	57.77 million	Optionable
HD Home Depot	509,300	993.36 million	992.37 million	Optionable
LOW Lowe's Companies	340,000	564.65 million	563.18 million	Optionable

GNRC, LOW, and HD Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Analysts Set Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) PT at $280.83

March 13 at 2:07 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) Downgraded to "Hold" Rating by StockNews.com

March 12 at 11:07 PM | marketbeat.com

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) Shares Acquired by Great Lakes Advisors LLC

March 12 at 7:22 AM | marketbeat.com

Hopwood Financial Services Inc. Invests $1.09 Million in Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 12 at 7:00 AM | marketbeat.com

Saturna Capital Corp Has $105.33 Million Holdings in Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 12 at 6:30 AM | marketbeat.com

Moors & Cabot Inc. Sells 2,357 Shares of Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 12 at 6:13 AM | marketbeat.com

Natural Investments LLC Acquires Shares of 3,907 Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 12 at 5:48 AM | marketbeat.com

King Luther Capital Management Corp Trims Stock Holdings in Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 12 at 5:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) Downgraded to Hold Rating by StockNews.com

March 12 at 4:55 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Edgestream Partners L.P. Sells 4,427 Shares of Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 12 at 4:00 AM | marketbeat.com

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW): The Magnificent Dividend Growth Stock to Invest In

March 12 at 1:40 AM | msn.com

Cushing Capital Partners LLC Acquires New Shares in Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 11 at 6:47 AM | marketbeat.com

Markel Group Inc. Grows Position in Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 11 at 6:38 AM | marketbeat.com

Miller Financial Services LLC Acquires Shares of 2,069 Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 11 at 6:21 AM | marketbeat.com

Cornerstone Advisors LLC Boosts Holdings in Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 11 at 6:05 AM | marketbeat.com

Riverbend Wealth Management LLC Acquires Shares of 1,562 Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 11 at 5:36 AM | marketbeat.com

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) Shares Purchased by Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

March 11 at 5:06 AM | marketbeat.com

Rep. Jefferson Shreve Buys Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) Shares

March 11 at 2:04 AM | marketbeat.com

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March 10 at 8:00 AM | prnewswire.com

AlphaQuest LLC Acquires 6,803 Shares of Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 10 at 7:45 AM | marketbeat.com

Independent Advisor Alliance Boosts Stock Position in Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW)

March 10 at 7:02 AM | marketbeat.com

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GNRC, LOW, and HD Company Descriptions

Generac NYSE:GNRC

$131.39 +0.05 (+0.04%)

Closing price 03/12/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$131.52 +0.13 (+0.10%)

As of 03/12/2025 07:15 PM Eastern

Generac Holdings Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes various energy technology products and solution worldwide. The company offers residential automatic standby generators, automatic transfer switch, air-cooled engine residential standby generators, and liquid-cooled engine generators; Mobile Link, a remote monitoring system for home standby generators; residential storage solution, which consists of a system of batteries, an inverter, photovoltaic optimizers, power electronic controls, and other components; smart home solutions, such as smart thermostats and a suite of home monitoring products. It also provides smart home energy management devices and sensors for heating and cooling system; smart doorbell cameras; and portable and inverter generators; multiple portable battery solutions; manual transfer switches; outdoor power equipment, including trimmers, field and brush mowers, log splitters, stump grinders, chipper shredders, lawn and leaf vacuums, and pressure washers and water pumps; and battery-powered turf care products. In addition, the company offers commercial and industrial products comprising cleaner-burning natural gas fueled generators; light-commercial standby generators and related transfer switches; stationary generators; single-engine industrial generators; industrial standby generators; industrial transfer switches; light towers, mobile generators, commercial mobile pumps, heaters, dust-suppression equipment, and mobile energy storage systems; stationary energy storage system and related inverter products; and aftermarket service parts and product accessories. The company distributes its products through independent residential dealers, industrial distributors and dealers, national and regional retailers, e-commerce partners, electrical/HVAC/solar wholesalers, solar installers, catalogs, equipment rental companies, and other equipment distributors; and directly to end users. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Home Depot NYSE:HD

$364.82 -3.34 (-0.91%)

Closing price 03/12/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$365.34 +0.53 (+0.15%)

As of 03/12/2025 08:00 PM Eastern

The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and internationally. It sells various building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and décor products, as well as facilities maintenance, repair, and operations products. The company also offers installation services for flooring, water heaters, bath, garage doors, cabinets, cabinet makeovers, countertops, sheds, furnaces and central air systems, and windows. In addition, it provides tool and equipment rental services. The company primarily serves homeowners; and professional renovators/remodelers, general contractors, maintenance professionals, handymen, property managers, and building service contractors, as well as specialty tradesmen, such as electricians, plumbers, and painters. It sells its products through websites, including homedepot.com; homedepot.ca and homedepot.com.mx; blinds.com, justblinds.com, and americanblinds.com for custom window coverings; thecompanystore.com, an online site for textiles and décor products; hdsupply.com for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) products and related services; and The Home Depot stores. The Home Depot, Inc. was incorporated in 1978 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lowe's Companies NYSE:LOW

$228.20 -4.47 (-1.92%)

Closing price 03/12/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$228.90 +0.70 (+0.30%)

As of 03/12/2025 07:26 PM Eastern

Lowe's Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States. The company offers a line of products for construction, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating. It also provides home improvement products, such as appliances, seasonal and outdoor living, lawn and garden, lumber, kitchens and bath, tools, paint, millwork, hardware, flooring, rough plumbing, building materials, décor, and electrical. In addition, the company offers installation services through independent contractors in various product categories; and extended protection plans and repair services. It sells its national brand-name merchandise and private brand products to professional customers, homeowners, renters, businesses, and government. The company also sells its products through Lowes.com website; and through mobile applications. Lowe's Companies, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is based in Mooresville, North Carolina.

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