Moreover, gross profit margin improved 20 basis points to 34.55% mainly due to lower cost of sales as a percentage of net sales. Other Financial Aspects Lowe’s ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $1,039 million, long-term debt (excluding current maturities) of $10,063 million and shareholders’ equity of $11,240 million, reflecting a debt-to-capitalization ratio of approximately 47.2%. During the quarter, the company repurchased $1.1 billion worth of its common stock and distributed $183 million as dividends, while in the first half of fiscal 2014, it repurchased $2 billion worth of its common stock and distributed $369 million as dividends.
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If you look at German companies, they are earning a lot, and many of them are market leaders. In the medium to long term, German markets are very cheap compared with Europe. After almost tripling between March 2009 and July 2014, the DAX retreated 10 percent in about a month, meeting the definition of a market correction. Escalating conflict between Ukraine and Russia , along with data signaling a slowdown in Germanys economy, has erased nearly $180 billion from equity values. The DAX lost 0.7 percent on Aug. 22, paring a weekly gain, after Ukraine said Russia was invading the country under the cover of an aid convoy. Relative Valuation Selling pushed the DAXs valuation more than 2 percentage points below that of the Stoxx 600, the widest gap since at least 2005, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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German Stocks Tarred by War Find Buyers at Record Value – Bloomberg
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