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barrons3	I like Target (TGT), adds Joe Terranova, And I might think about shorting Sears (SHLD).	Love	November 18, 2009
barrons3	George Soros bought BofA (BAC) and cutback his stake in Target (TGT).	Love	November 18, 2009
cloud66	Retail play	Love	November 14, 2009
barrons3	One myth is that older Americans are much more interested in shedding furniture and housewares than in buying them because most are empty-nesters. The reality: Older consumers account for more than 40% of the money spent on new household furnishings and equipment in the U.S. In part, this is because two-thirds of the owners of second homes are at least 50 years old, and need couches, tables and cutlery for those getaway places. In addition, one in six families headed by a person over 50 has a member under 18, as more people have children at later ages. At the same time, the recession undoubtedly is forcing more 25-year-olds and 40-year-old single parents to rethink the charms of their parents' homestead. Bottom line: Older consumers will keep trudging off to Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), Target (TGT), Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) and Ikea for years.	Love	October 03, 2009
scottdeck	home town giant	Love	September 04, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"You've got this incredible all-at-once retail thing going on," he said, which is sending stocks across the board up, including Target (TGT), Williams Sonoma (WSM), Tiffany (TIF), Dollar Tree (DLTR) and Family Dollar (FDO)." <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10590925/1/cramers-stop-trading-all-at-once-retail.html" target="_blank">Stop Trading!, Aug. 21</a>	Love	August 27, 2009
barrons3	In every single case I can spin every single piece of data negative. There are no pure positives. Target (TGT), Wal-Mart (WMT) and Kohl's (KSS) say back to school is good? A whole host of little ones say it is bad. Home Depot (HD) says things are getting better but Sears (SHLD) and Lowe's (LOW) can't say that.	Love	August 27, 2009
barrons3	Where else has the media been wrong? He cited a headline in the Wall Street Journal that said the consumer is holding back the recovery. "But that's not true," said Cramer, who noted that Target (TGT), along with Wal-Mart (WMT) and Kohl's (KSS) all said the back-to-school season was looking better than expected.	Love	August 20, 2009
barrons3	But how about the 85% of the market that doesn't sell into China? Do we decide to take back the Target (TGT) gains of yesterday?	Love	August 20, 2009
barrons3	Finerman noted that Ackman's Pershing Square had reported taking a 2.4 million- share stake in McDonald's (MCD), which could prove to be a thorn in the side of McDonalds' share price if investors fear he has made another poor call after his high-profile position in Target (TGT) didn't play out in his favor.	Love	August 19, 2009
barrons3	PershingSquareCapital reduced its holdings to 32,994,586 shares (4.4%), after selling 25,396,649 shares and settling options trades between June 10 and August 7. The sales were transacted at prices ranging from $37.74 to $39.39 apiece.	Love	August 15, 2009
barrons3	I like the J.C. Penney (JCP) dip and I notice the incredible action in Kohl's (KSS) and Target (TGT) and wish they were down. They are such tells for the turn, especially Kohl's, which is almost at its high. Reduced inventories more than make up for reduced sales.	Love	August 13, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	In an Aug. 6 blog post, Cramer wrote that the media had prematurely predicted a poor back-to-school season for retailers such as Macy's, Target (TGT), Gap (GPS) and JCPenney (JCP). "Back-to-school is looking very big," he wrote, "and given the low inventories, the cash flow could be tremendous here."	Love	August 12, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"Is the Wal-Mart (WMT) downgrade by Goldman Sachs 'right?' How about the Target (TGT) upgrade that comes with it? Is it time to desert Wal-Mart for Target because things are better? Because people will now shop at the 'nicer' stores?" <a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=6c8123e4-7f05-4364-8622-9c2900a26c15" target="_blank">"Retail Is a Microcosm of the Broad Market," 6-15-09</a>	Love	June 16, 2009
barrons3	The nation's retailers continued to suffer from weak sales in May. But that didn't keep Target , the No. 2 U.S. discount retailer after Wal-Mart , from sweetening its dividend Thursday, albeit by only a penny. Still, the boost is worth some $7.5 million to investors. The 6.3% hike by Target (TGT) takes its quarterly common payout to 17 cents a share. The new dividend is slated for disbursement on Sept. 10 to holders of record Aug. 20. The stock goes ex-dividend Aug. 18. The company, which has been making payouts since its 1967 public debut, has more than three decades of dividend growth under its belt. In addition, Target is working down a $10 billion share-buyback program.	Love	June 13, 2009
High Dividends	increased its quarterly dividend to 17 cents from 16 cents per common share, a 6% increase, payable on Sept. 10 to shareholders of record Aug. 20.	Love	June 13, 2009
ben5579	new store expansion/growth	Love	June 10, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"Anybody know why Bill Ackman didn't go after Saks (SKS)? Wouldn't that have been a better target? How about Liz Claiborne (LIZ)? Any back-of-the-envelope calculation would have told you that Target (TGT) is one of the few retailers that generated any wealth at all over the last 10 years. It also had one of the most sophisticated and best boards imaginable in part because of the excellent and legendary charity programs that it runs." (<a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=d61f1240-3fdf-48d4-a107-9c1d00b6fffe" target="_blank">"The 10% Pullback Mob," 6-3-09</a>)	Love	June 04, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"Meanwhile people have decided that the shopping season is back with an amazing move in Target (TGT) -- maybe people are happy that the Pershing plan is not happening!" (<a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=c0de89ca-5971-4549-98b6-9c1b00f99015" target="_blank">"Saftey Last," 6-1-09</a>)	Love	June 02, 2009
barrons3	One of the most successful retailers in America, Target is a buy at 41. Ackman's plan to unlock the company's real-estate value may be a sell. While there may be merit in some of Ackman's arguments, Target remains one of the best-run retailers in the country. His proxy fight seems to have a lot to do with ego and has been a major distraction for management at an otherwise challenging time. Indeed, it seems time to buy Target shares, not Ackman's campaign.	Love	May 23, 2009
barrons3	The $1.4 billion growth fund, holding 44 companies, is packed with Minnesota names like multinational manufacturer 3M (MMM), food giant General Mills (GIS), medical-device makers Medtronic (MDT) and St. Jude Medical (STJ), discount retailer Target (TGT), industrial-filter producer Donaldson (DCI), nuts-and-bolts distributor Fastenal (FAST), paint-sprayer supplier Graco (GGG), and water-cleaning-equipment firm Pentair (PNR). "The Minneapolis-St. Paul area has one of the highest concentrations of large, multinational industrial and financial companies in the U.S.," Frels observes. "Local surveys claim that Minnesota public companies consistently have outperformed the general stock market, year after year, with the exception of the past two years."	Love	May 02, 2009
barrons3	Activist investor William Ackman and the company disagree on the number of directors that should be elected at Target's annual meeting. Ackman argues that a director's resignation in January created a vacancy; the company contends that the resignation simply shrank the number of directors from 13 to 12. Ackman, who is launching a proxy fight to get a five-person slate onto Target's board, suggested that the issue be submitted to binding arbitration. Pershing Square, the hedge fund led by Ackman, holds 58,391,235 shares (7.8%).	Love	April 04, 2009
barrons3	Retail sales were up more than expected in February, hence the upgrades in Home Depot (HD), Best Buy (BBY) and Target (TGT) by Jefferies. Unemployment claims are not getting worse.	Love	March 19, 2009
barrons3	People are not shopping at Target (TGT) or Macy's (M) or Nordtrom (JWN), they are going to Wal-Mart. Why not? Wal-Mart's got them all beat on price and even on look and feel since the revolution Lee Scott put in place before he retired.	Love	March 05, 2009
barrons3	Hold - Price 27.38 on Feb. 24 by Standard & Poor's Equity Research January-quarter EPS of 81 cents... misses our estimate by a penny, on higher bad-debt expense. We look for TGT to do a better job of communicating its strong value proposition to consumers in FY10 (Jan.). But on [our] view that demand for its higher-margin-merchandise categories will likely remain weak, we trim our FY10 EPS estimate by 10 cents to $2.35. On peer ratios of enterprise value to Ebitda [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization], we keep our 12-month target at 29. Market cap: $21.4 billion.	Love	February 28, 2009
barrons3	In the space I own a little Target [TGT] and a little Foot Locker[FL], explains Finerman. But whenever you play the space always take a look at the balance sheet of the company you're buying. It’s important they have a lot of cash on the books.	Love	February 25, 2009
jack a. cohen	One of THE retailers currently and of the future	Love	February 17, 2009
blueagle99	own shares	Love	February 02, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"I have to tell you, I say no to Target. I don't want to go there, I don't want to shop there and I don't want to own the stock."	Love	January 26, 2009
RhinoStocks	This retailer has been beaten badly recently, but whether the downtrend will continue long-term is unclear. Short-term, however, Fitzpatrick is counting on it to move lower in part due to sinking 50 and 200-day moving averages. “I’d wait to buy this thing in the high $20s… maybe even the mid $20s,” he said.	Love	January 06, 2009