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Lowe's Financial Strategy
Lowe's Financial Planning Strategy
Lowe's home improvement stores have tried to enact a financial strategy for many years that would make the company the highest regarded and largest retailer of their type in the world. They have been thwarted in those goals by the success of The Home Depot, but Lowe's has still managed to build a trusted brand despite recent global economic difficulties. By looking at both Lowe's recent stock price (over the last five years) and capital structure, it will be possible to determine the proper financial planning strategy that the company should pursue.
There are two basic strategies that Lowe's has employed over the past decade that have had varying levels of success. The first part of the last decade Lowe's focused more on a strategy that had to do more with what the company had on hand than the sales it made. Lowe's had a much higher inventory level than other home improvement retailers (Law, Lummus, Gray, Landgraf, & Keltz, 2007) because...
However, this was an issue because inventory turnover was much slower. Lowe's was unable to stock as many new, innovative products as their competition, and this gave competitors an advantage. In the latter part of the last decade, Lowe's has focused more on customer service through offering more services and paying less attention to having a large amount of product offerings in their stores (Business Wire, 2011). Thus, Lowe's management has been able to say that they did not change their focus on customer service, they just listened to what customers wanted and tweaked their approach.
This change in strategy has allowed Lowe's to grow their stock price over the last five years as investor confidence in the company has grown. Over the last five years, Lowe's year end stock price has gone from a low of $21.52 (2008) to a recent high of $25.38 (2011) (Lowe's, 2012). This represents a 15.2%…
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Law, S., Lummus, C., Gray, T., Landgraf, A., & Keltz, K. (2007). Lowe's company, inc. Retrieved from http://mmoore.ba.ttu.edu/ValuationReports/Fall2007/Lowes.pdf
Lowe's. (2012). Investor relations: Historic price lookup. Retrieved from http://investor.shareholder.com/lowes/stocklookup.cfm
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