During the past 12 months, Target's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 10.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 17.60% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.70% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 9.00% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Target was 26.00% per year. The lowest was 3.20% per year. And the median was 10.90% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Competitive Comparison of Target's Forward Dividend Yield %
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Target's Forward Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Forward Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Target's Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Target's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Target's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.
Target Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Target Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 1.100
2024-02-20
2024-02-21
2024-03-10
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.100
2023-11-14
2023-11-15
2023-12-10
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.100
2023-08-15
2023-08-16
2023-09-10
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.080
2023-05-16
2023-05-17
2023-06-10
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
Target's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
4.4
/
164.44
=
2.68 %
Current Share Price is $164.44. Target's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $1.1 * 4 = $4.4.
Target's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
4.38
/
164.44
=
2.66 %
Current Share Price is $164.44. Target's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $4.38.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Target serves as the nation's sixth-largest retailer, with its strategy predicated on delivering a gratifying in-store shopping experience and a wide product assortment of trendy apparel, home goods, and household essentials at competitive prices. Target's upscale and stylish image began to carry national merit in the 1990s—a decade in which the brand saw its top line grow threefold to almost $30 billion—and has since cemented itself as a top U.S. retailer.Today, Target operates over 1,900 stores in the United States, generates over $100 billion in sales, and fulfills over 2 billion customer orders annually. The firm's vast physical footprint is typically concentrated in urban and suburban markets as the firm seeks to attract a more affluent consumer base.
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