Target (TGT)

• Market cap: $56.9B
• 1 day: -3.01%
• 5 days: -3.61%
• 1 month: -9.52%
• 3 months: 2.20%
• 6 months: -21.97%
• Year to date: -9.42%
• 1 year: -16.48%
• 5 years: 6.20%
• 10 years: 62.04%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Variety Stores

About: Target serves as the nation's seventh-largest retailer, with its strategy predicated on delivering a gratifying in-store shopping experience and a wide product assortment of trendy apparel, home goods, and household essentials at competitive prices. Target's upscale and stylish image began to carry national merit in the 1990s—a decade in which the brand saw its top line grow threefold to almost $30 billion—and has since cemented itself as a leading US retailer.Today, Target operates over 1,950 stores in the United States, generates over $100 billion in sales, and fulfills over 2 billion customer orders annually. The firm's vast footprint is typically concentrated in urban and suburban markets as the firm seeks to attract a more affluent consumer base.

Employees: 415,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

3% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 234 | Existing positions closed: 228

0.59% less ownership

Funds ownership: 81.7% [Q3] → 81.1% (-0.59%) [Q4]

5% less funds holding

Funds holding: 1,967 [Q3] → 1,873 (-94) [Q4]

12% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $58.7B [Q3] → $51.6B (-$7.13B) [Q4]

14% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $3.07B | Put options by funds: $3.58B

15% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 13 [Q3] → 11 (-2) [Q4]

24% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 627 | Existing positions reduced: 826

Research analyst outlook

8 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $130 5% upside
• Avg. target: $144 16% upside
• High target: $165 33% upside

8 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 38%
• neutral: 5 63%
• negative: 0 0%

Bernstein Zhihan Ma 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 1 met price target	14% upside $142	Market Perform Maintained	28 Jan 2025
Guggenheim Robert Drbul 44% 1-year accuracy 18 / 41 met price target	25% upside $155	Buy Maintained	22 Jan 2025
Citigroup Paul Lejuez 61% 1-year accuracy 23 / 38 met price target	7% upside $133	Neutral Maintained	17 Jan 2025
Truist Securities Scot Ciccarelli 67% 1-year accuracy 46 / 69 met price target	8% upside $134	Hold Maintained	17 Jan 2025
Telsey Advisory Group Joseph Feldman 56% 1-year accuracy 96 / 170 met price target	21% upside $150	Outperform Maintained	17 Jan 2025