$TGT
6 long-form articles and 8 pre-market mentions covering $TGT from AskMelon Research.
Ulta Beauty Beat With 5.3% Comps — Then Guided the Rest of the Year to Half That
Ulta Beauty did the hard thing a retailer is supposed to do: it beat. First-quarter fiscal 2026 net sales rose 11.1% to roughly $3.16 billion, comparable sales climbed 5.3%, operating income grew 11.6…
Williams-Sonoma trades at 25 times earnings on a housing market that won't move
Williams-Sonoma just posted the kind of quarter that home-furnishings retailers were not supposed to be able to post in 2026: comparable brand revenue up 4.8%, a 44.0% gross margin, $1.93 in diluted e…
Five Below's 22.7% Comp Laps a Collapse, and Its Own Guidance Cuts It to 8% Next Quarter
Five Below delivered the kind of quarter that turnaround stories are built on: net sales up 32.5% to $1.29 billion, comparable sales up 22.7%, adjusted earnings per share up 158%, and full-year guidan…
Walmart Is Priced Like an Ad Company While Two-Thirds of Its Profit Is Still Retail
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Costco Sells Groceries at Cost and Trades Like a Tech Stock
Costco is, by almost any measure, the finest retailer in America — a membership fortress with 148 million cardholders, renewal rates around 90%, and a brand so trusted that customers pay an annual fee…
The Five-Billion-Dollar Debt That Killed the Toy Aisle
A meditation on the 2005 Toys R Us LBO, the underinvestment pattern it imposed for thirteen years, and the asymmetric distribution of outcomes structural to leveraged-buyout finance.
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. A week that opened with Reddit's first Tuesday as an S&P 500 member — the stock surging intraday to $178.33 before index-fund buying exhausted itself and sellers d…
Saturday, August 22, 2026
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Thursday, August 20, 2026
The single event that rewired the tape was not an earnings print or the Fed minutes — it was the Treasury's decision to more than double its long-end debt buybacks, which pulled the 10-year from a 20-…
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
FOMC minutes arrive at 2:00 PM ET into a tape where beating estimates is no longer enough — KEYS fell ~7% during the session ahead of a 24% EPS beat (then rose ~4% after hours), MRCY fell ~10.6% after…
Sunday, August 16, 2026
The week of August 10–14, 2026 delivered a split verdict that will define the next two weeks: three consecutive macro data misses — PPI flat (0.0% MoM, below the +0.2% consensus), Retail Sales −0.6% M…
Saturday, August 15, 2026
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Thursday, May 21, 2026
NVIDIA delivered its most comprehensive beat in two years — $81.6B revenue, $91B Q2 guide, $80B buyback, and a 25x dividend hike — yet traded down 1% after the close as the market processed the parado…
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The dual binary that has suppressed three consecutive S&P losses arrives today: FOMC April Minutes drop at 2:00 PM ET revealing the 8-4 dissent's rate-hike language, and NVIDIA Q1 FY2027 prints after …