TARGET CORP TGT: Stock price, financial analysis and comparison with its peers

Stock - TGT

TARGET CORP

Prices and values in USD currency

Price - $106.51

Price is the close price as of yesterday market close (i.e. 2025-03-27). Prices are not updated in real time.

Sector

Consumer Defensive

Industry

Retail - Defensive

Employees

2022.0

ISIN

US87612E1064

Business summary

Target Corp is one of the largest department store retailer in North America. It is engaged in operating general merchandise discount stores.

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	TGT	SYY	KR	WMT
Company Name	TARGET CORP	SYSCO CORP	KROGER CO	Walmart Inc
Reason for selection	Selected stock	Stock with min Market Cap difference in Industry	Highest market cap. in industry	Highest market cap. in sector
Market Cap	$48,523 M	$36,223 M	$47,859 M	$686,483 M
Industry	Retail - Defensive	Retail - Defensive	Retail - Defensive	Retail - Defensive
Sector	Consumer Defensive	Consumer Defensive	Consumer Defensive	Consumer Defensive
Total Equity	$14,666 M	*************************	*************************	*************************
Shares Outstanding	456 M	*************************	*************************	*************************
Close	$106.51	*************************	*************************	*************************
Earning Yield	0.09%	*************************	*************************	*************************
ROIC	0.19%	*************************	*************************	*************************
Current Ratio	0.9	*************************	*************************	*************************
TBI Financial Score	98	*************************	*************************	*************************
Preferred Stocks	$160 M	*************************	*************************	*************************
Total Capitalization	$48,683 M	*************************	*************************	*************************
Book Value per Share	32	*************************	*************************	*************************
Earning Yield EBITavg3	0.08%	*************************	*************************	*************************
P E (3 years avg)	13	*************************	*************************	*************************
Net Profit Margin	0.04%	*************************	*************************	*************************
Dividends Yield	4.22%	*************************	*************************	*************************
Working Capital/Debt	-0.14%	*************************	*************************	*************************
Net Income	$4,091 M	*************************	*************************	*************************
Net Income 5yGrowth	0.04%	*************************	*************************	*************************
Num of Years w Dividends 10y	10	*************************	*************************	*************************

Investment Analysis Report: TGT and his peers

Overview:

Below you'll find an AI powered output based on the selected companies for comparison. If you change the companies, the output will be re-calculated.

For the analysis we decided to use Graham (father of value investing) as inspiration, the comparison is structured and oriented as the writer did to compare companies back in his times in the chapter 13 of the famous book The Intelligent Investor.

1. Profitability

(a) From the table we can see that 2 companies out of 3 show satisfactory earnings on their invested capital.

But the figures for SYY are much more interesting. Showing values above 30%

A high rate of return on tangible book value often goes along with a high annual growth rate in earnings per share. Mainly due to the fact that the management seems to be qualified to assign invested capital to profitable businesses and make earnings grow over time.

(b) Profit margins are usually an indication of comparative strength or weakness. But it tends to fluctuate based on several factors which can lead to two types of higher-than-average margins: temporary margins caused by external factors (like rises in commodity prices that the company produce due to temporary high demand or temporary low offer), and competitive advantages which stem from the intrinsic company and firm-specific factors.

We define companies with net profit margins of over 20% as having very high margin.

There are zero companies in the selection showing this significant margins.

2. Stability

Regarding stability of earnings, 2 companies out of 3 have reported positive net income in all of the last 10 years with available statements.

These are the companies from the table above that have always reported positive Net Income: KR, WMT.

Stability is not only about positive or negative profits, it's also about volatility of earnings and number of years of observations (number of available annualized income statements). The table below summarize the stability of the earnings showing 3 key metrics: Maximum drop in net profits, number of years out of number of years with available financials with negative trend (% change is negative) and average net profit change.

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