LOWE'S COMPANIES, INC. ANNOUNCES INCREASE IN QUARTERLY CASH DIVIDEND TO $1.20 PER SHARE

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Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW) has announced a 4% increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $1.20 per share, up from the previous $1.15. The dividend will be paid on August 6, 2025, to shareholders of record as of July 23, 2025. CEO Marvin R. Ellison emphasized the company's ongoing transformation and Total Home strategy positioning, despite current macroeconomic challenges. The dividend increase demonstrates the Board's confidence in the company's long-term growth investments and commitment to shareholder value. Notably, Lowe's has maintained a consistent track record of paying quarterly dividends since its 1961 IPO and has increased its dividend for over 25 consecutive years.

Positive

• 4% increase in quarterly dividend to $1.20 per share
• Over 25 consecutive years of dividend increases
• Consistent dividend payment history since 1961
• Board's confidence in long-term growth investments

Negative

• Acknowledged near-term challenges in macro environment

MOORESVILLE, N.C., May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of one dollar and 20 cents ($1.20) per share, payable Aug. 6, 2025, to shareholders of record as of July 23, 2025.  This represents a 4% increase over the company's previous dividend of one dollar and 15 cents ($1.15) per share.

"We are pleased with the ongoing transformation of the company, despite near-term challenges in the macro environment.  We're evolving our Total Home strategy so that we will be well-positioned to capitalize on the expected recovery in home improvement, and we continue to make the right investments in long-term growth," said Marvin R. Ellison, Lowe's chairman, president and CEO. "This dividend increase reflects the Board's confidence in these investments, and the company's commitment to delivering sustainable shareholder value through a disciplined capital allocation strategy."

Lowe's has paid a cash dividend every quarter since going public in 1961, and it has increased the dividend for more than 25 consecutive years.

About Lowe's

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements including words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "plan", "desire", "project", "estimate", "intend", "will", "should", "could", "would", "may", "strategy", "potential", "opportunity", "outlook", "scenario", "guidance", and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve, among other things, expectations, projections and assumptions about future financial and operating results, objectives (including objectives related to environmental and social matters), business outlook, priorities, sales growth, shareholder value, capital expenditures, cash flows, the housing market, the home improvement industry, demand for products and services including customer acceptance of new offerings and initiatives, macroeconomic conditions and consumer spending and Lowe's strategic initiatives, including those relating to acquisitions and dispositions and the impact of such transactions on our strategic and operational plans and financial results. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and we can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements.

A wide variety of potential risks, uncertainties, and other factors could materially affect our ability to achieve the results either expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, the occurrence of any event or other circumstance that could give rise to the right of one or both of the parties to terminate the merger agreement between Lowe's and ADG, the failure to obtain the requisite approvals or to satisfy the other conditions to the proposed merger on a timely basis or at all, the possibility that the anticipated benefits and synergies of the merger are not realized when expected, or at all, including as a result of the impact of, or problems arising from, the integration of the two companies or as a result of changes in general economic conditions, such as volatility and/or lack of liquidity from time to time in U.S. and world financial markets and the consequent reduced availability and/or higher cost of borrowing to Lowe's and its customers, slower rates of growth in real disposable personal income that could affect the rate of growth in consumer spending, inflation and its impacts on discretionary spending and on our costs, shortages and other disruptions in the labor supply, interest rate and currency fluctuations, home price appreciation or decreasing housing turnover, age of housing stock, the availability of consumer credit and of mortgage financing, trade policy changes or additional tariffs, outbreaks of pandemics, fluctuations in fuel and energy costs, inflation or deflation of commodity prices, natural disasters, geopolitical or armed conflicts, acts of both domestic and international terrorism, and other factors that can negatively affect our customers.

Investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties, risks and potential events including, but not limited to, those described in "Item 1A - Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and as may be updated from time to time in Item 1A in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or other subsequent filings with the SEC. All such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update these statements other than as required by law.

LOW-IR

Contacts:	Shareholder / Analyst Inquiries:	Media Inquiries:
	Kate Pearlman	Steve Salazar
	704-775-3856	steve.j.salazar@lowes.com
	kate.pearlman@lowes.com

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FAQ

What is Lowe's (LOW) new quarterly dividend amount for 2025?

Lowe's new quarterly dividend is $1.20 per share, a 4% increase from the previous $1.15 per share.

When will Lowe's (LOW) pay its next dividend in 2025?

Lowe's will pay its next dividend on August 6, 2025, to shareholders of record as of July 23, 2025.

How long has Lowe's (LOW) been paying dividends?

Lowe's has paid a cash dividend every quarter since going public in 1961, with over 25 consecutive years of dividend increases.

What is the dividend increase percentage for Lowe's (LOW) in 2025?

Lowe's announced a 4% increase in its quarterly dividend, from $1.15 to $1.20 per share.

What challenges did Lowe's (LOW) CEO mention in the dividend announcement?

CEO Marvin Ellison mentioned near-term challenges in the macro environment while discussing the company's ongoing transformation and Total Home strategy.