1. Financial Statement Ratios Is Target a wise investment?

2. Incorporated in Minnesota in 1902. Brand Promise: Expect More. Pay Less. ® Number of stores: 1,793 Annual Growth factor:.08% Expanded business into Canada in March 2013 Number of stores in Canada: 124 ABOUT TARGET :

3. Target guests profile: Median age of 40 Median household income of approx. $64K Approximately 43% have children at home About 57% have completed college

4. COMPETITORS (WMT) (SHLD) (AMZN)

5. In 2013 Target Corporation made headlines when hackers were able to steal 40 million credit card numbers plus 70 million phone numbers and addresses from the chains computer servers beginning right around the Thanksgiving holiday.

9. As you can see from the data above even though continued operations versus discontinued operations drove the stock price down investors still made a profit. In summary, I recommend investing in Target Corporation.