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Target earnings outlook: Does TGT have a mobile shopping app problem?
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) reported fourth quarter results that beat Wall Street’s expectations for the first time in a year. However, a new report from mobile app analytics firm GWS calls into qu...
Citigroup, Target, Lennar, and 2 More Companies Keeping Their Dividends Steady
PPL, a utility based in Allentown, Pa., said this week that it plans to raise its next quarterly dividend by 7%. It was an otherwise light stretch for such announcements among large U.S. companies. PP...
‘Five days that killed the year’: These trading sessions accounted for 95% of the S&P 500’s losses in 2022
Just five trading sessions accounted for more than 95% of S&P 500 index losses in 2022, according to an analysis by Datatrek co-founder Nicholas Colas in a note published Wednesday, as stocks head...
10 High-Dividend Stocks to Consider, From Target (TGT) to McDonald’s (MCD)
dividend stocks If you’re looking to invest money, you may want to consider high-dividend stocks. Dividends are regular distributions that companies dole out to their shareholders. High dividends simp...
Retailers Are Cutting Jobs Instead of Hiring Help Ahead of the Holidays
The holiday season is usually a reason for stores to staff up to handle the surge of shoppers. But Friday’s jobs report showed a concerning trend: Retailers are shedding workers. According to the Bure...
T. Rowe Price Has Had a Rough Time of Late. Negativity in the Money Manager’s Stock Could Be Overdone.
Money manager T. Rowe Price Group has fallen way out of favor on Wall Street. There are 15 analysts covering the stock, according to FactSet. None say to buy. More say to sell than hold. That’s approa...
Black Friday can offer investors clues about how much gas consumers have left in the tank: Here’s what to watch out for
Black Friday is arriving at an interesting time for the American consumer. Shoppers have seemingly persevered this year despite an all-out assault on their pocketbooks and net worth — from falling equ...
Target (TGT) 3Q earnings
Target‘s profit fell by around 50% in its fiscal third quarter as it cleared through unwanted inventory and sales slowed heading into the holidays, prompting the company to lower its expectation...
Walmart Is Flexing Its Muscle Again
America’s biggest retailer has a new message for its suppliers: We’re not going to pay higher prices anymore. Walmart Inc. Chief Executive Doug McMillon delivered the warning in person last month in a...
Retail analysts foresee holiday-season sales growth. Now we’ll hear from retailers themselves.
Even as price increases squeeze shoppers, analysts expect holiday-season sales to increase this year. With Walmart Inc., Target Corp. and discounters TJX Cos. and Ross Stores Inc. reporting results in...
Tupperware stock craters after company warns its debt burden may force it out of business
Tupperware Brands Corp. stock tumbled 41% Wednesday, after the maker of food storage products missed third-quarter earnings expectations, warned it may go out of business, and conceded that some of it...
Coca-Cola and 4 Other Quality Stocks to Bolster Your Portfolio
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Kroger’s $24.6 Billion Purchase of Albertsons to Create a Grocery Giant
Grocery giant Kroger said it was acquiring rival Albertsons in a roughly $24.6 billion tie-up that will help drive profitability and establish a larger footprint of nearly 5,000 stores. Kroger (ticker...
5 Dividend Stocks to Beat Inflation and Rising Interest Rates
Dividend stocks are facing stiffer competition, thanks to a big spike in bond yields. A risk-free 10-Year Treasury note was recently yielding 3.7%, up from 1.63% at the start of 2021. That’s well abov...
This Is a Good Time to Buy Short-Term Bonds
Until recently, short-term bonds were a yield wasteland: A two-year Treasury note yielded 0.21% a year ago and just 1% in January. Today, the yield is over 3.8% and could soon touch 4%, thanks in good...
Walmart, Target Urge Lawmakers to Pass Bill Taking Aim at Visa, Mastercard Fees
More than 1,600 merchants including Walmart and Target are urging U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation that aims to break the hold that Visa and Mastercard have over the credit-card market. The bill, wh...
Walmart and Target among 1,600 merchants calling for credit-card fee law, says WSJ
Merchants such as Target Corp. [s] and Walmart Inc. WMT, +0.09% signed on to a letter asking Congress to pass a law that would require options for the routing of credit-card transactions over alternat...
Inventory Pileup, Uneasy Shoppers Put Retailers in Jeopardy
For retailers, it is a season of discontent. From Walmart Inc. to Nordstrom Inc., retailers have a glut of inventory and are discounting items to clear out space for holiday goods. Many have already l...
How WMT And TGT Stack Up After Recent Earnings Reports
Big retailers claw back, still searching for the “new normal.” Getty Images COVID-19 changed the way people shop, and businesses have been forced to respond. Two retail giants, Walmart and...
S&P 500 earnings are rising only because of strength in this one sector
S&P 500 index company earnings for the second quarter were certainly better than expected, but it’s debatable whether overall results were actually good, given that year-over-year growth was due o...
Interesting Ideas In Retail Stocks
As second quarter 2022 earnings season wraps up, this week has proven to be an important one for the Retail sector. First, investors got the chance to hear from some of the top retailers such as Walma...
Target (TGT) Q2 2022 earnings: Profit falls nearly 90%
A sign outside of a Target department store on June 07, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Target announced that it expects profits will take a short-term hit, as it marks down unwanted items, cancels orders and...
Dow Futures Dip as Wall Street Seeks Rates Guidance From the Fed
Text size The focus for investors Wednesday will be on minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting. Getty Images Stock futures dipped Wednesday after strong earnings reports from Walmart and Home ...
Walmart Stock Falls After Report of Hundreds of Layoffs
Text size Shares of Walmart are down about 10% this year. Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Walmart is eliminating about 200 jobs in a bid to restructure the company, according to a report from The...
These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders
The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...