Target Corp.

  • Market Cap: Large Cap
  • Industry: Retailing
  • ISIN: US87612E1064
USD
135.23
2.59 (1.95%)
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  • Mojo Parameters
  • Total Return
  • News and Corporate Actions
  • Key factors
  • Shareholding
  • Financials
  • CompanyCV
stock-recommendationScore
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Strong Sell
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Comparison

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Quality
Valuation
Financial
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Why is Target Corp. ?

1
High Management Efficiency with a high ROCE of 26.23%
2
Strong ability to service debt as the company has a low Debt to EBITDA ratio of 1.42 times
3
Poor long term growth as Operating profit has grown by an annual rate -0.56% of over the last 5 years
4
Flat results in Jul 25
  • OPERATING CASH FLOW(Y) Lowest at USD 6,386 MM
  • NET PROFIT(HY) At USD 1,543.46 MM has Grown at -28.29%
  • ROCE(HY) Lowest at 26.32%
5
With ROCE of 20.83%, it has a attractive valuation with a 2.05 Enterprise value to Capital Employed
  • The stock is trading at a discount compared to its peers' average historical valuations
  • Over the past year, while the stock has generated a return of -28.69%, its profits have risen by 0.7% ; the PEG ratio of the company is 7.1
  • At the current price, the company has a high dividend yield of 351.9
6
High Institutional Holdings at 88.98%
  • These investors have better capability and resources to analyse fundamentals of companies than most retail investors.
7
Consistent Underperformance against the benchmark over the last 3 years
  • Along with generating -28.69% returns in the last 1 year, the stock has also underperformed S&P 500 in each of the last 3 annual periods
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Verdict Report

How much should you hold?

  1. Overall Portfolio exposure to Target Corp. should be less than 10%
  2. Overall Portfolio exposure to Retailing should be less than 30%

(If sector exposure > 30%, please use optimiser tool to see which are the best stocks to hold in Retailing)

When to exit? - We will constantly monitor the company and suggest at the appropriate time to exit from the stock

Is Target Corp. for you?

Medium Risk, Low Return

Absolute
Risk Adjusted
Volatility
Target Corp.
36.2%
-1.02
34.16%
S&P 500
22.93%
0.70
20.15%
stock-recommendationQuality
stock-summaryManagement Risk
stock-summaryGrowth
stock-summaryCapital Structure
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Quality grade scale :

Below Average, Average, Good, Excellent

Quality key factors

Factor
Value
Sales Growth (5y)
2.29%
EBIT Growth (5y)
-6.67%
EBIT to Interest (avg)
12.00
Debt to EBITDA (avg)
1.42
Net Debt to Equity (avg)
0.87
Sales to Capital Employed (avg)
3.52
Tax Ratio
22.84%
Dividend Payout Ratio
55.83%
Pledged Shares
0
Institutional Holding
100.00%
ROCE (avg)
26.23%
ROE (avg)
35.94%
stock-recommendationValuation

Valuation Scorecard stock-summary

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Valuation grade scale :

Very Risky, Risky, Very Expensive, Expensive, Fair, Attractive, Very Attractive

Valuation Key Factors stock-summary

Factor
Value
P/E Ratio
16
Industry P/E
Price to Book Value
3.36
EV to EBIT
13.59
EV to EBITDA
8.14
EV to Capital Employed
2.49
EV to Sales
0.61
PEG Ratio
NA
Dividend Yield
3.81%
ROCE (Latest)
18.34%
ROE (Latest)
20.84%
stock-recommendationTechnicals

Technical key factors

Indicator
Weekly
Monthly
MACD
Bullish
Mildly Bullish
RSI
No Signal
No Signal
Bollinger Bands
Bullish
Bullish
Moving Averages
Bullish (Daily)
KST
Bullish
Mildly Bullish
Dow Theory
Mildly Bullish
No Trend
OBV
Mildly Bullish
No Trend
stock-recommendation Technical Indicator Scale: Bearish, Mildly Bearish, Sideways, Mildly Bullish, Bullish  Turned 
Technical Movement
stock-recommendationFinancial Trend

Financial Trend Scorecard stock-summary

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Financial Trend scale:

Very Negative, Negative, Flat, Positive, Very Positive, Outstanding

6What is working for the Company
DEBT-EQUITY RATIO (HY)

Lowest at 95.6 %

DIVIDEND PER SHARE(HY)

Highest at USD 0

DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO(Y)

Highest at 66.53%

RAW MATERIAL COST(Y)

Fallen by -3.64% (YoY

-5What is not working for the Company
ROCE(HY)

Lowest at 22.02%

INTEREST(Q)

Highest at USD 123 MM

Here's what is working for Target Corp.

Debt-Equity Ratio
Lowest at 95.6 % and Grown
In each half year in the last five Semi-Annual periods
MOJO Watch
The company has been reducing its borrowing as compared to equity capital

Debt-Equity Ratio

Dividend per share
Highest at USD 0 and Grown
In each year in the last five years
MOJO Watch
Company is distributing higher dividend from profits generated

DPS (USD)

Dividend Payout Ratio
Highest at 66.53%
in the last five years
MOJO Watch
Company is distributing higher proportion of profits generated as dividend

DPR (%)

Raw Material Cost
Fallen by -3.64% (YoY)
MOJO Watch
The company's ability to pass on the cost of raw materials to customers has improved; this may lead to a rise in profit margin

Raw Material Cost as a percentage of Sales

Depreciation
Highest at USD 813 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
The expenditure on assets done by the company may have gone into operation

Depreciation (USD MM)

Here's what is not working for Target Corp.

Interest
At USD 123 MM has Grown at 18.27%
period on period (QoQ)
MOJO Watch
Rising interest cost signifies increased borrowings

Interest Paid (USD MM)

Interest
Highest at USD 123 MM
in the last five periods and Increased by 18.27% (QoQ)
MOJO Watch
Rising interest cost signifies increased borrowings

Interest Paid (USD MM)