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As inflation and high mortgage rates force homeowners to fix only what’s broken, the retail giant is changing its strategy.

A static dividend yield quietly loses ground every month inflation climbs, but five companies have been raising their payouts fast enough to fight back. The question is which ones have the cash flow to keep doing it.

Some companies have raised their dividends through recessions, pandemics, wars, and market crashes without missing a single year, and five of them may be the steadiest income plays a retiree can own right now.

RH's Q2 performance may reflect modest sales growth as housing weakness, sourcing disruptions and international startup costs weigh on results.

Retail earnings reveal a K-shaped consumer split: Home Depot and Lowe's post solid home-improvement sales, while Walmart and Five Below face mixed results amid tariff and margin pressures.

The chain faces an uphill battle since it can’t compete on price.

Williams-Sonoma stock dropped on Wednesday even though the home specialty retailer delivered a beat-and-raise quarter in tough times for housing. The stock is up 25% this year, but down 11% from its all-time closing high of $251.78 on Aug. 7, according to Dow Jones Market Data. While other retailers are logging tariff refunds, Williams-Sonoma is feeling a sting.

Pro and online growth offset DIY weakness amid housing market headwinds.

Investors should look past the recent earnings report.

Walmart is investing its $2.9 billion return into price cuts, while Target plans for additional reimbursements and Home Depot and Lowe’s offset higher costs.

A one-off tariff refund is expected to be consumed by cost inflation the company had not planned for, which is why a quarter that beat on earnings left the full-year outlook untouched.

Retail earnings this week so far paint a mixed picture—both about how U.S. consumers are fairing and how large retailers are navigating those waters. Target and Walmart, mainstream retailers that sell a range of goods including groceries, both reported higher sales, but flagged that shoppers continue to be cautious, in part because of higher gas prices. Target said comparable sales rose 3.8% in the most recent quarter, its second quarter of solid growth after enduring a yearslong string of weak quarterly sales results.

Walmart set a somber tone for the first week of retailer earnings, but that wasn’t the whole story. The big news was Walmart’s sales woes as the Bentonville, Ark.-based giant reported a same-store sales decline—the first since 2020. Target meanwhile, showed some signs of life, reflecting its turnaround efforts.

Dow Jones futures: Crude oil continues to climb while bitcoin jumped again amid a weak dollar. Walmart earnings are in focus.

The guidance revision accompanied Q2 results in which Lowe's reported net sales of $25.95bn for the quarter ended 31 July 2026, up from $23.95bn a year earlier.

Moby summary of Lowe's Companies, Inc.'s Q2 2027 earnings call

Lowe's navigates a challenging macro environment with disciplined execution, delivering $26 billion in revenue and raising its full-year outlook to the bottom end of prior guidance.

Target (TGT) lifted its full-year outlook on Wednesday as tariff refunds helped double the retailer'

Home improvement retailer Lowe's (LOW) released mixed second quarter results. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma comes on Market Catalysts to break down the areas where Lowe's is still seeing pressure on consumer spending and CEO Marvin Ellison's latest comments on the company's tariff refund.

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Lowe's (LOW) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended July 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) reported second-quarter sales of $26 billion, up 8.3% from a year earlier, as growth in its professional customer, online and home-services businesses helped offset continued pressure on discretionary do-it-yourself spending. Comparable sales increased 0.2% in the quarte

Target just posted its strongest quarter in years, but strip out a one-time government windfall and the story gets far more complicated. Here is what the headline numbers are hiding about whether this retailer's turnaround is built to last.

Lowe's Companies Inc (NYSE:LOW) trimmed its full-year sales and profit forecasts after discretionary home-improvement spending remained under pressure, even as the retailer topped Wall Street estimates for the second quarter. The company now expects fiscal 2026 revenue of $92 billion, down...

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The home improvement retailer cut its full-year sales and profit targets to the bottom of prior guidance ranges, citing persistent softness in do-it-yourself spending

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Lowe's (LOW) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +4.27% and -0.68%, respectively, for the quarter ended July 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Lowe’s lowered its expectations for 2026 as persistent softness in DIY spending is expected to continue to weigh on sales and earnings for the rest of the year.

Today Federal Reserve: FOMC minutes from Fed’s July meeting Earnings (a.m.): Target, Lowe's, TJX, Analog Devices, Estee Lauder Economic data: EIA weekly petroleum status report, CPI (UK), PPI (UK) Tomorrow Earnings: Walmart, Alibaba, Deere & Co.