Target Corp (TGT): Today's Featured Services Laggard
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) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services laggard. The sector as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, Target fell $1.70 (-2.6%) to $62.78 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 6.4 million shares of Target exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of four million shares. The stock ranged in price between $62.59-$64.12 after having opened the day at $64.04 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $64.48. Other companies within the Services sector that declined today were:
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), down 18.2%,
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), down 16.2%,
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), down 12.8%, and
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), down 11.1%.
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Target Corporation operates general merchandise stores in the United States. Target has a market cap of $41.73 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 24.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Target a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Target as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full Target Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 12.3%,
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), up 11.3%,
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), up 11.3%, and
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), up 10.3%, were all gainers within the services sector with
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) being today's featured services sector leader.
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