Home Depot vs Lowe's

FEC: $65K PAC donations; 92% to Republican, 8% to Democratic committees.

FEC: $116K in executive political donations; partisan lean split across 9 executive donors.

hazardous waste violation: $37.8M in federal penalties (Violation Tracker).

environmental violation: $18.6M in federal penalties (Violation Tracker).

368 federal penalties totaling $325.1M since 2000 (Violation Tracker).

223 federal penalties totaling $136.0M since 2000 (Violation Tracker).

JUST Capital JUST 100 — ranked #71 of Russell 1000 (2025) for treatment of workers, customers, communities, environment. HRC Corporate Equality Index 100/100 (2025) — top-tier LGBTQ+ workplace equality rating.

JUST Capital JUST 100 — ranked #84 of Russell 1000 (2025) for treatment of workers, customers, communities, environment. HRC Corporate Equality Index 100/100 (2025) — top-tier LGBTQ+ workplace equality rating.

$132M reported corporate giving in 2024 (~0.09% of revenue) via Home Depot Foundation. JUST Capital JUST 100 — ranked #71 of Russell 1000 (2025) for treatment of workers, customers, communities, environment. Drucker Institute Management Top 250 — ranked #25 (2024) on customer satisfaction, employee engagement, innovation, social responsibility, and financial strength. Fortune World's Most Admired Companies — ranked #23 (2024). Newsweek Most Trustworthy Companies in America — ranked #47 (2024).

$145M reported corporate giving in 2024 (~0.17% of revenue) via Lowe's Charitable & Educational Foundation. JUST Capital JUST 100 — ranked #84 of Russell 1000 (2025) for treatment of workers, customers, communities, environment. Newsweek Most Trustworthy Companies in America — ranked #52 (2024).

Home Depot banned the use of glue traps in its 2,200+ U.S. stores in 2017 after a store manager witnessed a mouse suffering on one, but as of 2024 it continues to sell glue traps—a practice PETA has challenged at multiple annual shareholder meetings (2017–2024). Home Depot holds no published cruelty-free certification (e.g., Leaping Bunny, PETA's Animal Test–Free) and no corporate animal welfare sourcing policy has been identified in its public ESG reports.

Lowe's is a home improvement retailer (not a cosmetics brand), so traditional animal-testing certifications are not applicable; however, PETA has campaigned against Lowe's for years over its sale of glue traps. As of September 2025, Lowe's removed glue traps from its website following multi-year PETA pressure, but has not yet extended the ban to physical store shelves.

No federal firearms license on record for this company in the ATF FFL registry — no licensed firearms dealing or manufacturing.

No federal firearms license on record for this company in the ATF FFL registry — no licensed firearms dealing or manufacturing.

1 publicly-disclosed data breach per Have I Been Pwned (2014) — 56M accounts compromised. Most recent: Home Depot (2014).

In September 2024, Lowe's disclosed a data breach to the Maine Attorney General in which an unauthorized third party obtained employee Workday login credentials and accessed PII (names, addresses, DOB, email, phone, bank account numbers) for 944 people. Lowe's also publishes a consumer privacy statement covering CCPA and Nevada opt-out rights, but no FTC enforcement actions or regulatory fines against Lowe's were found.

CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio 2026:1 (median employee pay $37,881; CEO total compensation $2K) — SEC proxy statement (DEF 14A, 2011).

No public record found.