NYSE:TGT - Target Stock Price, Price Target & More

Target trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "TGT."

Target announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 13th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 15th will be given a dividend of $0.64 per share on Monday, September 10th. This represents a $2.56 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 14th. This is a positive change from Target's previous quarterly dividend of $0.62. View Target's Dividend History.

Target Co. (NYSE:TGT) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 23rd. The retailer reported $1.32 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.38 by $0.06. The retailer earned $16.78 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $16.58 billion. Target had a return on equity of 23.34% and a net margin of 4.09%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 3.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.21 earnings per share. View Target's Earnings History.

Target is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 15th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Target.

Target updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.15-5.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.27. Target also updated its Q2 guidance to $1.30-1.50 EPS.

20 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Target's stock. Their forecasts range from $56.00 to $91.00. On average, they expect Target's share price to reach $72.4706 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Target.

Target saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 34,459,878 shares, a drop of 10.4% from the May 15th total of 38,471,597 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 7,579,353 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.5 days. Currently, 6.5% of the company's stock are sold short.

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Headlines about TGT stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Target earned a daily sentiment score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the retailer an impact score of 46.35 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

Target's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.58%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.62%), Northern Trust Corp (1.46%), LSV Asset Management (1.36%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.31%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.78%). Company insiders that own Target stock include Anne M Mulcahy, Cathy R Smith, Don H Liu, Donald R Knauss, Hourigan Rice Jacqueline, Janna A Potts, John J Mulligan, Laysha Ward, Robert M Harrison, Roxanne S Austin and Stephanie A Lundquist. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Target.

TGT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., BlackRock Inc., Tremblant Capital Group, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Equity Investment Corp, CIBC Asset Management Inc, Swiss National Bank and Legal & General Group Plc. Company insiders that have sold Target company stock in the last year include Don H Liu, Hourigan Rice Jacqueline, Janna A Potts, John J Mulligan, Laysha Ward, Robert M Harrison, Roxanne S Austin and Stephanie A Lundquist. View Insider Buying and Selling for Target.

TGT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including American Century Companies Inc., Argent Capital Management LLC, CIBC World Markets Inc., LSV Asset Management, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. and Quadrature Capital Ltd. Company insiders that have bought Target stock in the last two years include Cathy R Smith, Don H Liu and Donald R Knauss. View Insider Buying and Selling for Target.

Shares of TGT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of TGT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $75.36.

Target has a market capitalization of $41.12 billion and generates $71.88 billion in revenue each year. The retailer earns $2.93 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.71 on an earnings per share basis. Target employs 345,000 workers across the globe.

Target's mailing address is 1000 NICOLLET MALL, MINNEAPOLIS MN, 55403. The retailer can be reached via phone at 612-304-6073 or via email at [email protected]