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TGT·Target Corporation

$157.95
-5.15 (-3.16%)
Pre-Market
High
$158.32
Open
$156.22
Market Cap
73.01B
52W High
$170.75
Low
$154.60
P. Close
$157.95
P/E
16.62
52W Low
$83.44
Fwd P/E
16.55
DailyIQ Est.
$163.97
Inst. Own.
73.4%
Short Interest
3.61%
Days to Cover
4.2
Div. Yield
3.01%
Next Ex-Div
~Nov 11
Div. Growth
42+ yrs
NewEarnings release, scored · filed Aug 19, 2026Guidance raised · tone +5.8 vs prior release · 48 lines scoredSee the breakdown
Technical Score (1D)
90
BULLISH
News Sentiment
58
BULLISH
On Nov 5, Target announced a strategic expansion of its holiday food lineup, adding specialty and artisanal products to attract consumers seeking unique culinary experiences. The retailer also announced a push into protein‑infused items for the holiday season, citing a rise in Americans seeking higher protein intake and the popularity of GLP‑1 weight‑loss medications. These moves were reported to aim at boosting foot traffic and sales during the peak shopping period and to strengthen Target’s position in the grocery category. On the same day, Target’s shares closed at $157.95, a 3.16 % decline from the previous day, while the broader market fell. Analysts noted that the retailer’s share price lagged its sector’s 11.64 % gain but outperformed the S&P 500’s 0.38 % decline. SeekingAlpha gave Target a buy rating on Nov 5, citing a valuation that outperformed competitors Walmart and Costco. The rating highlighted the company’s attractive valuation despite recent share price gains.
LOW TARGET
$128 -17.8%
3 analysts
MEAN TARGET
$163 +4.9%
30 analysts
HIGH TARGET
$190 +22.1%
11 analysts
PRICE RANGE
$128.00 - $190.00
SB / B / H / S / SS
7/9/24/3/1
DAILYIQ EST.
$163.97 (+5.3%)
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Industry
Discount Stores
Exchange
NYQ
Country
United States
Website
Symbol
TGT
Description
Target Corporation is a leading U.S.-based retailer offering a broad selection of general merchandise. The company's core value proposition centers on providing a curated assortment of products across various categories, including apparel, beauty, electronics, home goods, and groceries. Target differentiates itself through its focus on design-driven merchandise, strategic partnerships, and a convenient shopping experience. Customers can access Target's offerings through its extensive network of physical stores and its online platform, Target.com. Founded in 1902 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Target continues to serve as a prominent retail destination for a diverse customer base.
Bought (1Y)
0 shares
$0
Sold (1Y)
142,193 shares
$21.1M
Vemana PratabkumarExecutive Officer
Tax Withholding1,131 shares2026-10-31
Lee JamesExecutive Officer
Tax Withholding7,636 shares2026-09-30
WEINSTEIN MARK A.Executive Officer
Award/Grant23,787 shares2026-09-30
WEINSTEIN MARK A.Executive Officer
Award/Grant2,142 shares2026-09-30
Cornell Brian CExecutive Officer
Sell50,000 shares2026-08-25
57/ 100
Neutral / mixed
Overall: Neutral
✕Revenue declining year over year
✓Positive net margin
✓Positive operating cash flow
Gross Margin
27.9%
Net Margin
3.5%
Revenue CAGR
2.8%
Current Ratio
0.94x
Debt / Equity
0.90x
Return on Equity
22.9%

EPS

EstBeatMiss
$1.13$1.50$1.88$2.26$2.63Q1'25Q2'25Q3'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'27
QtrEstActual+/−
Q3'27$2.07 - -
Q2'26$2.34$2.46+5.2%
Q1'26$2.24$1.71-23.7%
Q3'25$1.71$1.78+4.1%
Q2'25$2.03$2.05+0.8%
Q1'25$1.65$1.30-21.3%

Revenue

EstBeatMiss
$23.4B$24.3B$25.3B$26.2B$27.1BQ1'25Q2'25Q3'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'27
QtrEstActual+/−
Q3'27$26.7B - -
Q2'26$26.3B$26.5B+0.8%
Q1'26$25.7B$25.4B-0.9%
Q3'25 - $25.3B -
Q2'25 - $25.2B -
Q1'25 - $23.8B -

Market Data

TGT Stock Snapshot

BULLISH90/100
$155.25−$2.95 (1.9%)
Market cap
73.01B
P/E ratio
16.6
Day range
$154.60 – $158.32
News sentiment
58/100 · Neutral
Analyst target
$163.35 (+5.2%)
Consensus
Hold · 44 analysts
52-week range+86.1% off low · -9.1% from high
$83.44$170.75
Price $155.25 DailyIQ Est. $163.97

Trend, momentum and range position line up bullish on TGT at the moment. Sector peers are worth watching - large caps in Consumer Defensive tend to move together on rotation.

Reverse DCF

What growth is priced into TGT?

RICH

At today's price, Target Corporation needs to grow free cash flow about 6.0% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 7.49% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at -0.5% a year, so the market is asking for 6.5 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis TGT looks priced above what its own growth record supports.

Implied FCF growth
6.0%
Growth trend
-0.5%
Growth gap
+6.5 pts
Verdict
RICH
Discount rate (WACC)
7.49%
Beta
0.86

Behaviour On Record

What TGT's own history says about today's numbers

Realized volatility (21d)
34.8% 81st pct
Below its peak
-39.0%
vs 200-day average
+21.6%
Up days (1y)
53%

Target Corporation is currently running 34.8% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against TGT's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 81st percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 25.0%.

TGT is trading -39.0% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -27.4%, and the deepest was -44.1% in 2022. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began, and where past declines also continued.

Price sits +21.6% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 84th percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year TGT closed higher on 53% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.

On November specifically: over 13 years of records, TGT finished the month higher 7 of 13 times, with a median return of +1.1% and an average of +3.8%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +4.7% on average, its weakest May at -3.4%.

Overnight risk is measurable too: TGT has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 38 of 3,268 sessions (1.2% of the time), with the largest gaps running +4.8% and -4.0%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against TGT's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.

Sector Rotation

Is money rotating into or out of TGT's sector?

Target Corporation sits in the Consumer Staples sector, currently ranked 1st of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (leading).

Sector rank
#1 of 12
Sector state
Leading
Sector rotation score
100

Options Market

What is the options market pricing for TGT?

CallsPuts

For Target Corporation's nearest expiry (2026-11-06, 0 days out), open interest is call-heavy, a bullish tilt (put/call ratio of 0.39), with at-the-money implied volatility around 12.5%.

Put/call ratio (2026-11-06)
0.39
ATM implied volatility
12.5%
Total open interest
19,267

Analyst Consensus Estimates

What do analysts expect TGT to earn?

Analysts expect Target Corporation to earn $10.52 per share in the fiscal year ending Jan 2027 and $10.70 in the fiscal year ending Jan 2030, from 2 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.

Quarter endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Oct 2026$2.05$1.91 to $2.2531$26.45B29
Jan 2027$2.67$2.34 to $2.8531$31.84B29
Apr 2027$1.88$1.74 to $2.269~$22.60B-
Jul 2027$2.64$2.50 to $2.768~$31.73B-
Oct 2027$2.18$1.94 to $2.438~$26.20B-
Fiscal year endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Jan 2027$10.52$10.25 to $10.7829$110.19B36
Jan 2028$9.55$8.48 to $10.3036$113.83B35
Jan 2029$10.17$10.10 to $10.204~$122.24B-
Jan 2030$10.70$10.60 to $10.792~$128.61B-

Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.

Analyst Rating Changes

Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on TGT?

Evercore ISI Group most recently reiterated its rating on Target Corporation to In-Line on Oct 13, 2026 with a price target of $165 (from $170). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 1 upgrade against 0 downgrades, a net bullish lean.

Latest action
Evercore ISI Group: In-Line
90-day upgrades
1
90-day downgrades
0
Net rating momentum
+1
DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Oct 13, 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainedIn-Line$170 → $165
Sep 30, 2026HSBCUpgradeHold → Buy$125 → $190
Aug 20, 2026Telsey Advisory GroupMaintainedOutperform$170 → $182
Aug 20, 2026CitigroupMaintainedNeutral$148 → $160
Aug 20, 2026Goldman SachsMaintainedNeutral$127 → $161
Aug 20, 2026BMO CapitalMaintainedMarket Perform$150 → $160
Aug 20, 2026Truist SecuritiesMaintainedHold$147 → $167
Aug 20, 2026UBSMaintainedBuy$166 → $185
Aug 20, 2026BarclaysMaintainedUnderweight$115 → $140
Aug 20, 2026Piper SandlerMaintainedNeutral$146 → $153
Aug 20, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$165 → $185
Aug 20, 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainedIn-Line$150 → $170

Earnings Release, Scored

What did Target Corporation's latest earnings release say?

Filed Aug 19, 2026 · SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99

Guidance raised
Tone80.5/ 100+5.8 vs prior release
Hedging words0.41per 100 words+0.05 vs prior release
Tone, last 2 releasesScale 50–86

Most important lines

  1. 1

    Full-year net sales growth in a range around 5 percent, one percentage point higher than the prior guidance range.

    Guidance raised
  2. 2

    Excluding tariff refunds, the midpoint of the guidance range reflects a $0.75 increase versus prior guidance of $7.50 to $8.50.

    Guidance raisedNew this quarter
  3. 3

    These gains contributed $752 million to net earnings and $1.65 to both GAAP and Adjusted EPS.

    New this quarter

Peers & ETF holders

TGT peers & ETF holders

News & sentiment

What is the news saying about TGT?

TGT rose 0.9% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 46 and 73 from Oct 6 to Oct 20, then dropped to 46 on Oct 21.

Daily close and news tone, Oct 6 to Nov 6
$150$160Oct 6: tone 67Oct 7: tone 66Oct 8: tone 67Oct 9: tone 69Oct 12: tone 51Oct 13: tone 60Oct 14: tone 66Oct 15: tone 46Oct 16: tone 52Oct 19: tone 73Oct 20: tone 70Oct 21: tone 46Oct 22: tone 69Oct 23: tone 65Oct 26: tone 49Oct 27: tone 55Oct 28: tone 65Oct 29: tone 43Oct 30: tone 55Nov 2: tone 50Nov 3: tone 54Nov 4: tone 61Nov 5: tone 57Nov 6Oct 6News toneNov 6123
  1. Oct 22 +3.6%same day: Target Completes SoHo Store Transformation, Bringing Style and Design to Every Target Run
  2. Oct 23 -3.3%same day: Target (TGT) Unveiled A New Manhattan Flagship Level
  3. Nov 4 +5.6%same day: Amazon vs. Target: One Is Riding the AI Boom, While the Other Faces a Consumer Spending Squeeze

Technical analysis

How strong is TGT's momentum right now?

On the daily chart TGT ranks at the 90th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bullish reading.

Momentum rank by timeframe0 = weakest, 100 = strongest
See what drives the rankThe inputs behind each timeframe's momentum rank, plus RSI, stochastics, Bollinger Bands and moving averages. Free with an account.

Institutional ownership

Are big funds buying or selling TGT?

107 of the 215 tracked managers added to TGT in their latest 13F and 101 trimmed. Together they own 73.4% of the company, worth $45.8B. BlackRock and State Street alone hold 15.9%.

107adding101trimming7unchanged
Largest holders by stake, latest 13FBar = share of TGT
  1. $5.1B positionAdded 2.1% last quarter
  2. $4.7B positionTrimmed 3.8% last quarter
  3. $3.9B positionAdded 0.8% last quarter
  4. $3.2B positionAdded 23.8% last quarter
  5. $2.9B positionAdded 0.9% last quarter
  6. $2.0B positionAdded 10.3% last quarter
  7. $1.4B positionAdded 2.3% last quarter
  8. $896.3M positionTrimmed 2.6% last quarter
  9. $985.0M positionAdded 7.3% last quarter
  10. $816.9M positionAdded 20.4% last quarter
Full holdings history

Congressional trading

Is Congress trading TGT?

14 members of Congress disclosed 21 TGT trades between May 7, 2014 and Sep 23, 2025: 9 buys and 12 sells, about $382.0K in estimated value.

BuysSells20162018202020222024
BuySell$1K–$15K$15K–$50K$50K–$100K$100K–$250K

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How has TGT done against its peers?

Over the six months to Nov 6, TGT returned +19.7%. Of the 15 related stocks and ETFs, 2 did better, led by DLTR at +41.8%.

Change since May 6, through Nov 6
−40%−20%0%+20%+40%+60%May 6JunJulAugSepOctNov 6DLTR +41.8%TGT +19.7%TJX −11.9%