Lowe's Companies (LOW -0.28%) is the world's second-largest home improvement chain, raking in $83.7 billion in trailing-12-month sales, which puts it behind Home Depot. In the past 50 years, the North Carolina-based company has generated a monster total return of 245,200%, generating massive wealth for early shareholders. I'm sure some of them have become millionaires.But with the retail stock trading not that far off its peak and the business carrying a large market capitalization of $150 billion, can Lowe ...