What’s the crashing to the floor you hear?  Oh ya that’s retail stocks taking a drubbing today in the market.  While the market is down around 1.5%, Target stock closed down 3.68%.  Wal-Mart also underperformed the market down nearly 2% and Costco was down nearly 3%.  Another day like today on Friday and Target could [...]

Year-to-date the Target vs. Wal-Mart stock battle has gone to Target.  In fact, it’s not even close.  Wal-Mart is down over 12 percent.  Target stock, on the other hand, is up nearly 18 percent.  Target also has a leg up on Costco (also down 2009) and DollarTree which is up over 2 percent on the [...]

Bloomberg recently published an article entitled Wal-Mart Set to Repeat Share Gains, Grab Target Sales. I’m not all that sure that I agree with this, but Wal-Mart had a pretty banner year in 2008 compared to the rest of the retail establishment, I guess that’s what you invest in Wal-Mart for, though.  Nevertheless, I see [...]