Target Corporation

TGT Consumer Defensive Discount Stores

Target Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended January 2026) was $104.8 billion, down 1.68% from fiscal 2025. In the quarter to July 2026, revenue grew 5.27%, EPS grew 100.5%, free cash flow grew 141.2% and total debt fell 6.68%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years.

152.54 5.57 −3.52%
Market cap
$71.8B
P/E
16.3×
Fwd P/E
14.8×
Dividend yield
2.90%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
2.90
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
73/100

Target Corporation (TGT) Free cash flow margin

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Target Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 31 July 2026 was 4.14%, up 1.4 percentage points from fiscal 2026 (2.71%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −1.38% (fiscal 2023) to 8.46% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 17% of that period. That is above the Discount Stores industry median of 3.35% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.54%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2026 2.71% (1.49)
FY2025 4.20% 0.65
FY2024 3.55% 4.93
FY2023 −1.38% (6.20)
FY2022 4.82% (3.64)
FY2021 8.46% 3.14
FY2020 5.32% 1.95
FY2019 3.37% (2.73)
FY2018 6.10% 0.49
FY2017 5.61% (0.55)

Against its own ten years

Low −1.38% High 8.46%
Ten-year median 4.51%
Current reading's percentile 17

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
DLTR Dollar Tree, Inc. compare 9.85%
OLLI Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. compare 8.02%
DG Dollar General Corporation compare 4.62%
TGT Target Corporation 4.14%
TBBB BBB Foods Inc. compare 3.59%
COST Costco Wholesale Corporation compare 3.10%
WMT Walmart Inc. compare 1.86%
BJ BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. compare 1.57%
PSMT PriceSmart, Inc. compare 1.45%
Discount Stores industry median 3.35%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.54%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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