LOW Dividend Calculator
Lowe's Companies, Inc. yields 2.57%, close to the 2.92% median across US dividend payers, and has raised the payment in each of the last 26 years. On a record that long the yield is the less interesting half of the picture: what a holder received grew every year even in the years the yield did not move.
LOW paid $4.85 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
LOW
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
2.57%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in LOW pays you
$257.24
per year
- Paid each quarter
- $64.31
- Monthly average
- $21.44
- Shares bought
- 53.04
- Payments a year
- 4
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$2,572.40
Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.
LOW dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 2.57%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $25.72 | $6.43 | $2.14 |
| $5,000 | $128.62 | $32.15 | $10.72 |
| $10,000 | $257.24 | $64.31 | $21.44 |
| $25,000 | $643.10 | $160.77 | $53.59 |
| $50,000 | $1,286.20 | $321.55 | $107.18 |
| $100,000 | $2,572.40 | $643.10 | $214.37 |
LOW with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in LOW, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.
- After 10 years
- $12,923
- After 20 years
- $16,700
- After 30 years
- $21,581
$12,572 taking the income as cash
$15,145 taking the income as cash
$17,717 taking the income as cash
What makes up LOW's 2.57% yield
LOW paid $4.85 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $188.54, which is where the 2.57% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
A yield near the median tells you little on its own, so the number worth pairing it with is the payout ratio: at 0.40, roughly 40% of LOW's earnings are committed to the dividend and the remaining 60% is retained. Two companies on identical yields can sit at opposite ends of that range, and it is the difference between a payment with room to absorb a weak year and one without.
Discretionary consumer earnings fall further than staples in a downturn, which puts more of the weight on the payout ratio: the same dividend consumes a much larger share of earnings in a weak year.
When LOW pays, and what that changes
LOW pays quarterly, the standard schedule for US-listed payers, so the "per payment" column is one quarter of the annual figure and the "monthly average" column is a smoothed figure rather than a description of when cash arrives — nothing is paid in eight months of the year.
Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. LOW's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is LOW's dividend covered by earnings?
LOW's payout ratio of 0.40 means roughly 40% of earnings go to the dividend, leaving the rest retained. A margin that size is what allows a payment to be maintained through a weaker year without being funded from borrowing.
That ratio deserves a caveat specific to cyclical earnings, though: it is struck against one year's profits, and in this kind of business those profits swing with prices the company does not set. A comfortable-looking ratio at the top of a cycle and a stretched one at the bottom can describe an unchanged dividend — so the level matters less here than where in the cycle it was measured.
Every figure above holds LOW's dividend flat. That is a conservative assumption here: the payment has risen in each of the last 26 years, and repeating that record would put the real result above these numbers. It is stated as an assumption rather than built in because a streak describes what has happened, not what is promised.
LOW dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in LOW pay in dividends?
- At LOW's current yield of 2.57%, $10,000 pays about $257.24 a year — roughly $64.31 per payment, paid quarterly, or $21.44 a month averaged out.
- What would LOW be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in LOW would grow to about $12,923 after 10 years, against $12,572 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
- How often does LOW pay dividends?
- LOW pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is LOW's dividend guaranteed?
- No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check LOW's full payment history before relying on any of it.
- Has LOW increased its dividend every year?
- LOW has raised its dividend in each of the last 26 years on our records, which are derived from split-adjusted payment history and are approximate. The projections above deliberately ignore that growth and hold the payment flat, so a continuation of the record would put the real outcome above the figures shown.
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Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a common stock trading at $188.54 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.