TGT: $95.37 (-3.95%, as of Jun 13, 2025 @ 4:10 PM ET) 🎯 
📉 Short interest: 3.56% (as of May 30, 2025) — not terrifying, but eyebrow-raising.

So… are bears onto something?
Maybe not.

😬 No Insider Buys in Sight... But Wall Street Still Believes

🧍♂️ Not a single insider has purchased Target stock in two years.
But institutions? 💼 They’re all in:

🔝 Top Institutional Holders

Looks like somebody still believes in big red bullseyes.

🔍 For full Institutional Ownership breakdown, see here.

🧾 Target’s Financials: Stable but Sleepy

📅 Full-Year 2024 Highlights:

• 📈 Comp sales: +0.1%

• 💄 Beauty: Mid-single digit growth

• 👗 Apparel & Essentials: Still growing

• 👣 Traffic: +1.4% across stores and digital

• 💰 GAAP & Adjusted EPS: $8.86

• 💡 $2 billion in cost savings over two years (Note to self: $2 billion is not 0!)

🔮 Guidance for 2025:

• 🛍️ Sales growth: ~1%

• 📉 Flat-to-slightly-better margins

• 💵 GAAP/Adj. EPS: $8.80–$9.80 (Note to self: it's a lot money per share!)

• 💳 Effective tax rate: 23–24%

So... modest expectations, not moonshots. 🚀

📦 Q1 2025 Update: Holding the Line

• 💵 Net Sales: $23.8B (down slightly from $24.5B)

• 💻 Digital sales: +4.7% (especially in same-day delivery + Target Circle 360™)

• 🎯 Designer collab with Kate Spade = 🧨 best in a decade

• 💸 GAAP EPS: $2.27 vs. $2.03 YoY (Not bad!)

• ✂️ Adjusted EPS (ex-litigation gains): $1.30

• 🚀 Launched “Acceleration Office” (yes, that’s a real thing) led by CFO Michael Fiddelke to speed up innovation

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into Target’s financials here.

🤔 Why the Doubts?

Because…

1. 🐢 Growth is sluggish. It's hard to move the needle at huge companies.

2. 📉 No big bottom-line breakout expected.

3. 🛍️ Fierce competition from Walmart, Amazon, Costco, dollar stores, drug stores, you name it.

4. 🐻 Bears aren’t exactly wrong to ask questions.

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🔄 But There’s a Bullish Case to Be Made

Here’s what the bulls are clinging to:

✅ Cheap-ish Valuation

• P/E: 10.91

• Price/Sales: 0.41

• EV/Revenue: 0.56

• EV/EBITDA: 6.69

✅ Solid Fundamentals

• Debt-to-equity: 1.27

• Qtrly debt ratio: ~103.5%

• Healthy margins and stable traffic

✅ Shareholder Rewards

• 💵 4.59% Dividend yield

• 💰 $251M in Q1 share buybacks at avg. $114.60

✅ Digital Delivery Growth

• Circle 360™ and Drive-Up booming 🚗💨

✅ Big Brand, Big Love

• Long-term brand loyalty

• Huge institutional support

• Still a go-to for millions of households

🎯 Final Take: Steady as She Shops

Target may not be flashy right now, but it’s solid. The shares are a contrarian play. No fireworks, no cliff dives. Just… dependability. And a reasonable shot at compounding returns from this discounted base.

Will it outperform the market? Quite possibly.
Will it completely implode? Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

So if you want a stock that won’t ruin your day and still pays you while you wait — 🎯 might be worth a look.

🧴 Disclaimer
We’re not bulls or bears. More like stock squirrels — gathering acorns of insight. 🌰💼
This is not financial advice. Just a stylish scan of the retail jungle.

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