Forget Lowe's -- Home Depot Is the Better Dividend Stock
As the home improvement industry's second-largest retailer, Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) can't escape comparisons with Home Depot (NYSE: HD), whose annual sales footprint is a whopping 40% greater than Lowe's $69 billion. The good news is that this smaller position gives Lowe's room for faster growth, and in fact its earnings gains should beat Home Depot's in 2017 as it adds 25 new locations to the store base while its rival's count holds flat.
Yet Lowe's is the weaker stock buy today when judged as an income investment.
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