Lowe's lifted its quarterly payout 4.2% to $1.25 a share, pushing the annual rate to $6.10 and the yield to 3.1% even with a soft home improvement backdrop. Shares must be held through today's ex-date to collect.
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A 4.5% intraday climb to $189.17 adds roughly $4 billion to Lowe's, and it follows this morning's early Black Friday announcement. Holiday demand is now the swing factor for a retailer facing a frozen housing market.
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 9/30/26
- Cramer calls housing frozen: the 30-year national average at 7.34% versus 3% five years ago
- Lennar down 20% and KB Home down 17% year to date; Toll Brothers holds up on 25% cash buyers
- Whirlpool suspended its dividend; Home Depot and Lowe's both hit 52-week lows
- IPO and M&A pipelines stalled too, with Oura shelving a $2.2 billion offering
Mortgage rates at multi-decade affordability lows are draining builders, appliance makers and the home-improvement aisles at once, so holders are really running a single trade. Cramer says the group does not recover until the war ends, oil retreats and rate hikes come off the table.
Lowe's carved out a new 52-week low at $187.66, undercutting the low it set just four sessions earlier by 0.44%. That's roughly a third off the $285.64 peak this window, with the $105.3 billion retailer now making fresh lows faster than it can hold them.
Lowe's just marked a new 52-week low at $194.61, 1.01% under the low it set only five days ago. The $109.2 billion retailer has now taken out its floor twice in a week.
Lowe's just broke to a fresh 52-week low at $200.05, and the $200 line is now the level holders have to defend.
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