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Lowe's Finds Support at $215 After Q1 Earnings Sell-Off
Written by Thomas Hughes. First Published: 5/22/2026.
Key Points
- Lowe's stock price decline is over; what comes next includes capital returns and eventual price recovery.
- Cash flow enables balance sheet improvements and capital returns in 2026: share buybacks are a catalyst for future quarters.
- Analysts set the floor for this market and indicate a 20% upside potential.
- Special Report: Elon’s “Hidden” Company
While Lowe’s Corporation (NYSE: LOW) and competitors like Home Depot (NYSE: HD) face headwinds and hurdles in 2026, the technical setup is shaping up for a rebound in the back half of the year. Although Q1 earnings results were solid, soft guidance led to post-release weakness in the stock, which is the operative factor.
The decline in LOW shares pushed the price below $215 and triggered a strong response: buying. Whether that came from bottom-seekers, value hunters, or income investors is beside the point. What matters is that support was confirmed at a level that has been in play for years.
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See the 5 stocks to avoidFirst reached in the wake of the COVID-19 scare and the market’s subsequent surge, $215 is now a critical pivot point for this stock. The question now is whether Lowe’s can sustain its business and grow from its 2026 levels, or whether it is facing a contraction. Based on store-count growth and positive Q1 comparable sales, the likely outcome is that Lowe’s can continue growing from this level, generating ample cash flow and returning capital to investors along the way. Growth is unlikely to be robust, but there is always hope that the housing market thaws. As it stands, Lowe’s growth is centered on market share gains, digital expansion, and its pro segment.
Lowe’s Outperforms in Q1: Cautious Guidance Overshadowed Financial Strength
Lowe’s had a decent Q1, with revenue of $23.10 billion, up 10.4%. The growth was driven in large part by the FBM acquisition, but organic strength was also present. Comparable sales increased by 0.6%, underpinned by growth pillars including Home Services, Pro, and appliances. Digital was also a key driver, increasing by 15.5% as consumers continue to lean into same-day delivery and pickup. The company’s efforts to improve fulfillment, marketing, and customer experience are paying off.
Margin news was also positive. The company faced margin pressure, but less than expected, leaving gross, operating, and net profit above consensus forecasts. Adjusted earnings outpaced consensus by approximately 200 basis points, exceeding the top-line strength by 100 basis points, and helped drive accelerated balance sheet improvement. Balance sheet highlights continue to reflect a high-debt position resulting from aggressive share count reduction, but improvements were logged, including increases in retained earnings and equity.
Catalysts for the share price include the company’s cash flow and its potential to reduce debt in the coming quarters. The downside is that share buybacks have been put on hold; the upside is that debt reduction will enable future, sustainable buybacks and improve shareholder leverage. Until then, the dividend remains reliable. Lowe’s is a Dividend King, has increased its payout for more than 60 years, and pays out less than 40% of its annualized earnings forecast. The dividend growth rate may moderate in the coming years, but increases are not expected to end anytime soon.
Analysts Set Floor for Lowe’s Stock: Aligns With Technical Support
Analyst trends have contributed to Lowe’s stock price decline in 2025 and 2026, as they have steadily reduced price targets over that period. However, the post-release action suggests that trend may be ending. Early revisions include reaffirmed ratings and price targets that align with a bullish consensus.
MarketBeat tracks 35 analysts rating Lowe’s as a consensus Moderate Buy. They have a 63% buy-side bias and see the stock advancing 20% from the critical support target. Looking ahead, forward earnings forecasts suggest this stock can rise by 100% within the next five to 10 years.
Institutions present a risk, but that may be passing given the stock’s price action. Institutional investors own 75% of Lowe’s stock and sold on balance in early Q2. If that continues, Lowe’s stock will struggle to recover from its floor. The offsetting detail is the trailing 12-month balance, which is better than 2-to-1 in favor of bulls. With this in play, the likely outcome is that early Q2 sellers revert to buying, and institutional activity underpins the late May price action.
Late May price action is more bullish than it appears. The guidance update triggered a sell-off, but the floor was reached, an intraday rebound followed, and a doji candle formed. The doji is a sign of indecision and, in this case, marks the end of a downtrend but not necessarily an immediate rebound.
The market is still below its moving averages, which remain the first hurdle for price action. No sustained rally will develop until those levels are crossed and confirmed as support.
AAPL: Forget the iPhone—Services Will Drive the Next Phase of Growth
Written by Sam Quirke. First Published: 5/19/2026.
Key Points
- There's a growing argument that Apple's Services segment is significantly undervalued by the market and could by itself add as much as $13 to the company's share price.
- The segment's margins alone, at more than 70%, make it a compelling pillar in the bull's long-term thesis for the stock.
- Tigress Financial, Wedbush, and TD Cowen have all issued or reiterated bullish price targets this month, ranging up to $400, suggesting Wall Street is starting to connect the dots.
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Shares of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) have been on an impressive run in recent weeks, breaking through $300 for the first time last week. The stock is now up more than 20% since the start of April, finally rallying after months of range-bound trading.
The broader bull case that has fueled this move has been well documented—a blowout earnings report, double-digit revenue growth, a massive $100 billion buyback, and a market that has firmly shifted back into risk-on mode.
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See the 5 stocks to avoidWhat has received considerably less attention, though, is the argument that Apple may still be significantly undervalued in one very specific part of its business. A fresh note from Evercore ISI last week argued that the company's Services segment, which generated nearly $31 billion in revenue in its most recent quarter, is being priced by the market as if it were a hardware business.
The analysts believe that if Services were valued more appropriately as a high-margin, recurring-revenue software operation, it could add as much as $13 per share to Apple's stock price on its own. Considering Apple is currently selling record numbers of its iconic iPhone, that's an interesting take worth taking seriously.
Why Services Is Becoming Impossible to Ignore
The core of Evercore's argument isn't complicated, and that's part of what makes it so compelling. According to analyst Amit Daryanani, Apple's Services division, which includes the App Store, Apple Music, iCloud, Apple TV+, Apple Pay, and a growing suite of subscription products, isn't growing like a hardware business; it's growing like a software one.
More importantly, the margin profile tells a very different story from the iPhone business. Services carries dramatically higher gross margins than hardware, meaning every incremental dollar of Services revenue benefits the bottom line far more than a dollar of iPhone revenue ever could.
That distinction matters enormously when modeling what Apple's earnings could look like three to five years from now, as Services becomes an increasingly dominant share of the overall revenue mix. The company's installed base of active devices provides a remarkably durable foundation for that continued growth, and it seems Apple has barely scratched the surface of what it could monetize from that ecosystem.
Wall Street Is Starting to Connect the Dots
The bullish take from Evercore ISI didn't exactly arrive in a vacuum. Last week, Tigress Financial reiterated its Strong Buy rating on Apple stock and raised its price target to $375, implying around 25% additional upside from current levels.
That stance echoes similarly bullish calls from TD Cowen and Wedbush this month as well, with the latter setting an eye-catching $400 price target. The fact that these targets are clustering well above $300 at a time when the stock is only just reaching that level signals that the smartest money on Wall Street isn't treating $300 as a ceiling, but rather as a waypoint.
Underscoring all of this is WWDC, Apple's annual developer conference, which is happening next month and could serve as a significant near-term catalyst. If Apple uses the event to double down on its AI and Services roadmap, it would give the market a concrete reason to back up the bullish analyst calls.
The Valuation Concern Is Real
At the same time, none of this means the stock is without risk, and investors should think carefully about what they're paying for. Apple's current price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is around 36, one of its highest in the past decade.
The Services-is-a-sleeping-giant thesis is compelling, but it only holds up if the segment continues to grow at double-digit rates. If macro headwinds start hurting consumer spending on subscriptions, or if equities in general shift into a risk-off sentiment, the premium on Apple stock would be much harder to justify.
There's also the straightforward observation that the stock has already gained significantly in recent weeks. Investors getting involved at $300 aren't exactly getting in on the ground floor of the rally, and some near-term profit-taking after such a strong run wouldn't be unreasonable. The stock might not look technically overbought right now, but it's definitely edging toward that territory.
The real question for investors right now isn't whether Apple is a great business. That's not in dispute. It's whether the market is correctly valuing it given its full potential. If the Services argument gains broader traction in the coming weeks, the current price might look like a bargain in hindsight, which is exactly what the bulls are counting on.
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