$TGT
6 long-form articles and 2 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.
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 …