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12
Part II
Item 5 - Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Securities
Lowe's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The ticker symbol for Lowe's is “LOW”. As
of March 28, 2013, there were 27,259 holders of record of Lowe's common stock. The following table sets forth, for the
periods indicated, the high and low sales prices per share of the common stock as reported by the NYSE Composite Tape
and the dividends per share declared on the common stock during such periods.
Fiscal 2012 Fiscal 2011
High Low Dividend High Low Dividend
1st Quarter ....................................................... $ 32.29 $ 26.58 $ 0.14 $ 27.45 $ 24.13 $ 0.11
2nd Quarter ...................................................... 31.37 24.76 0.16 26.60 21.31 0.14
3rd Quarter ....................................................... 33.63 25.34 0.16 22.48 18.07 0.14
4th Quarter ....................................................... $ 39.26 $ 31.23 $ 0.16 $ 27.57 $ 20.34 $ 0.14
Total Return to Shareholders
The following information in Item 5 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is not deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be
“filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or to the liabilities of
Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing
under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except to the extent we specifically incorporate it
by reference into such a filing.
The following table and graph compare the total returns (assuming reinvestment of dividends) of the Company's common
stock, the S&P 500 Index and the S&P Retailing Industry Group Index (S&P Retail Index). The graph assumes $100
invested on February 1, 2008 in the Company's common stock and each of the indices.
2/1/2008 1/30/2009 1/29/2010 1/28/2011 2/3/2012 2/1/2013
Lowe’s .................................... $ 100.00 $ 72.71 $ 87.62 $ 104.10 $ 114.68 $ 165.83
S&P 500 .................................. 100.00 60.63 80.72 97.88 105.38 121.25
S&P Retail Index .................... $ 100.00 $ 62.28 $ 96.88 $ 123.20 $ 141.07 $ 177.59