NYSE:TGT - Target Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Target declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 19th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 21st will be paid a dividend of $0.64 per share on Monday, December 10th. This represents a $2.56 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 20th. View Target's Dividend History.

Target Co. (NYSE:TGT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August, 22nd. The retailer reported $1.47 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.40 by $0.07. The retailer had revenue of $17.78 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $17.33 billion. Target had a return on equity of 24.29% and a net margin of 4.19%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 6.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.23 earnings per share. View Target's Earnings History.

Target is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 21st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Target.

Target issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $5.30-5.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $5.30. Target also updated its Q3 guidance to $1.00-1.20 EPS.

21 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Target's shares. Their predictions range from $64.00 to $102.00. On average, they expect Target's stock price to reach $87.9412 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Target.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Target in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 14 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Target.

Target saw a decline in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 23,780,809 shares, a decline of 14.6% from the August 15th total of 27,857,055 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,410,456 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.7 days. Currently, 4.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Target's Current Options Chain.

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Media headlines about TGT stock have trended somewhat positive on Thursday, Accern Sentiment reports. Accern rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Target earned a news impact score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave media headlines about the retailer an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View Recent Headlines for Target.

Target's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.02%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.78%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.78%), Northern Trust Corp (1.45%), LSV Asset Management (1.41%) and American Century Companies Inc. (1.06%). 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 American Century Companies Inc., Morgan Stanley, CIBC World Markets Inc., Federated Investors Inc. PA, Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY, Schroder Investment Management Group, Schroder Investment Management Group and Natixis. Company insiders that have sold Target company stock in the last year include Don H Liu, 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Bank of Montreal Can, Tyvor Capital LLC, Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc., Millennium Management LLC, First Republic Investment Management Inc., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC and Argent Capital Management LLC. 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 $87.38.

Target has a market capitalization of $46.15 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]