Target stock got slammed today along with the market on the jobless unemployment news.  Certainly, disposable income for American families has a direct impact on sales at Target stores.  January $35 options lost over half of their value with the premium down to $1.43.  You’d need a 3% move up to get back in the [...]

Target stock jumped 4.36% today on low volume, but on a day that saw the Dow down nearly a percent.  The stock is up over 11.5% in the past five days, which includes an off day for New Year’s.

Beginning the week of December 28th, Target stock was trading down over 35%.  The company has distributed $.60 in dividends per share this year.  Currently the company is worth just under $25 billion.  It is trading at less than 10 times price-to-earnings (trailing) and it is estimated that the the forward P/E is just over [...]

Parents shopping for Playstation 3 games at retailer Target this Christmas season will get a nice surprise.  The discount retailer has cut its prices on Electronic Arts games to $47.  This actually now will also include titles from Microsoft XBox as well.  These discounts may prove to be profitable ‘loss leaders’ for the store and [...]

Know Target’s company logo?  Much like that, Target stock appears to have a giant red bullseye on its back, facing threats from reinvigorated department store rivals. Target has been forced to play catch up lately with the reigning retail champ and competitor Wal-Mart on new initiatives such as discount prescription drugs and organic food. Walmart [...]

Target Stock saw heavy action today as the equity boomed nearly 10 percent on heavy volume.  While the Dow was also up today, it was outperformed by nearly 3x by TGT today.  Not much news, but Zack’s did pan the stock based on its recent sss numbers.  “The retail chain has been losing market share [...]

In November, Target stores saw a decrease in sales of just over 6 percent.  Same-store-sales dropped over 10%, worse than guidance of declines of 6-9 percent.  The big question for Taget stock will be the impact of holiday sales, one way or another.  Of course investors are hoping for a better than expected season, while [...]

Now that the Target stock real estate spin off seems dead, can Target raise additional funds to help pay down its debt and get the cash it needs to open new stores?  One may question whether or not investors would approve of opening any new stores at all in this environment, especially at the cost [...]

Target stock was recently ranked as number #174 of the 500 stocks on the S&P in terms of return YTD.  This will an unimpressive -36% return.  Only 15 stocks on the S&P 500 are up for the year.  Nunber one on this list is Family Dollar which is up nearly 50%.  Yay bargains!

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