Target Corp (TGT)

Downthumb. Good cash flow. Mediocre sales growth. High debt ratio. Low short ratio. Optimistic street.

1. credit cards
2. consumer spending
3. debt

"Style at the expense of quality does not work when times are tight." -plh...

Srsly.

Insider selling shows selling. Better to have position in a declining market

still overpriced given that consumers have lower cost options and consumer spending will remain down

Diversification has always been target's strength. The shopping experience that focuses on the guest. The New CEO, and target team have seem to have lost this vision. While the branding power of target remains the customer service isn't anywhere close to what is used to be. I down thumb Target on repeated short-term decisions which seem more aimed at meeting quarterly earnings rather than long term growth. Cutting employees, while execs fly around districts to do store "inspections", running with less than half the labor hours have tapered employee morale, hurt store appearance, and hurt the customer experience which is target's strength. I expect target to experience some pain, especially with a resurgent Wal-Mart and the ever growing online shopping.

Consumer spending will continue to decrease for the next few years.

Banking, Housing. Employment = consumer panic.

Until confidence begins to build even Walmart will begin to falter.

Part of pair trade. Long WMT short TGT.

Who is the low price leader? not these guys.
Style at the expense of quality does not work when times are tight.

Should've done this months ago, but time to downgrade a slew of consumer discretionary/retail companies. We are going to see a change in the standard of living in this country in the next decade, and these companies are flat out not going to see the performance of the past.

Sales volume and profit margins are going to be worse than the market currently expects. Target, the master of retail marketing is not going to be able to pull it off this holiday season. Even people with safe jobs, money in the bank and big lines of credit are being cautious this year. Target will cut expenses in early Q12009 but it will have little impact. If Q2 2009 sales outperform same quarter last year the stock will pop as Q3 and Q4 2009 expectations improve. If Q2 2009 sales underperform same quarter last year it will stay flat or drop a bit.

Consumers are going to shift to the perceived-to-be-cheaper Wal-Mart and KMart. Target will have to realign its mass media campaigns to highlight price shopping before they have a sales increase.

SHORT consumer these long time-too long market outperforming, debt loving, consumer stocks - consumer has been squeezed dry in the states and thats the reality the next decade, other sectors of S&P to outperform

Holiday spending will be poor and today's euphoria will be short lived.

Christmas sales will be lower

Like the store not the stock. The store look nice and have some nice stuff but they never look crowded compared to wallie world.

merchaindise has died!

B/C kmart is better!