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moncler outlet online store Sign in / Join NowSummaryTarget changed their guidance and the market gives them a 5% boost in a day.I believe TGT would smash their original pessimistic moncler outlet store guidance. They announced they would and the market jumped.The only way for an investor to get a 5% yield and a low payout ratio from a dividend champion is to buy when the market has lost moncleronlineoutlet its mind.This dividend champion may not be as big as Procter Gamble (PG) or Johnson Johnson cheap moncler jackets (JNJ), but it is still a dividend champion.Target (TGT) released a very important announcement. Management indicated that sales through the first 2 months of the second quarter were above expectations. They now expected a “modest” increase moncler sale online in Q2 comp sales. Further, the company’s previous guidance range for Q2 earnings was $.95 to $1.15. uk moncler outlet The consensus analyst forecast follows management guidance, with an average of $1.06. The sad truth about major analysis firms is that they often base their forecast almost exclusively on management best moncler jackets guidance with relatively weak due diligence. In my view, investors are overestimating the challenges facing the cheap moncler sale company. I have a very bullish view on Target.To be clear, management guidance is for $3.80 to $4.20 in earnings in 2017. That’s an absurdly low estimate given their massive earnings beat in the first quarter of 2017. I argued before that Target’s same store forecasts were thrown off by management’s overly bearish macroeconomic views. Since management’s forecasts were leading analysts to dramatically reduce their forecasts, moncler usa the consensus analyst forecast is still low for both 2017 and 2018. I expect Target to thoroughly smash the middle of management’s guidance, which is $4.00, and decimate consensus forecasts for next year (as in 2018), which moncler outlet sale are around $4.20. Of course, if Target beats on earnings four times in a row (on a quarterly basis), or if the consensus estimate is repeatedly revised higher, that would make it hard to keep this stupid bear narrative in place.”Speaking of bears, I found a video of the bears running.I don’t believe Target should be valued at a PE ratio over 20 right now, but the current valuation is unjustifiably low. Especially with dividend champions trading over a PE ratio of 30 like Coca Cola (KO). Target will be going on year 50 for raising their dividend. This puts them above big renowned companies such as Altria Group (MO), Kimberly Clark (KMB), Pepsi (PEP), Wal Mart discount moncler jackets (WMT), and McDonald’s (MCD). Very few companies are like 3M (MMM) and have made it passed the 50 year mark.That First Quarter Earnings BeatRemember that Target absolutely slaughtered earnings forecasts for the first quarter, which were also based off management’s guidance moncler outlet woodbury for poor sales and earnings. In the first quarter management forecasts for earnings were $.80 to $1.00. The consensus moncler sale forecast was $.91. Much like the second quarter forecasts, the consensus is $.01 over the middle of the range moncler outlet prices provided by management. cheap moncler jackets womens That is not a coincidence. That is “analysts” using a model where they put in management’s forecasts, make tiny modifications, and call it a good day of work.The beat on the first quarter alone put Target in place to put the top end of guidance for the moncler womens jackets year if they simply hit the middle of the range for each future quarter.Remember that retailers will generally see better earnings in the fourth quarter, as demonstrated by this Schwab chart for Target’s earnings:The purple arrows indicate fourth quarter figures. Consequently, full year guidance of $3.80 to $4.20 was not predicting earnings of rough $1.00 per quarter. It was expecting weaker earnings in the first 3 quarters.Why Management Provided Low GuidanceBack in April I cheap moncler https://www.moncleronlineoutlet.com jackets mens argued that Target’s management provided low forecasts because of negative macroeconomic assumptions. This required a careful look at the impact of politics. Without getting into politics, investors needed to consider the perspective of management. I wrote:”From June 2016 to December 2016, the average outlook reported by respondents identifying as Democrats fell by 24.1 index points. The average outlook from respondents identifying as Republicans increased by 50.5 index points. This was by far the largest partisan swing recorded by the university.This is important for two uk moncler sale reasons. The first is that consumers with a more positive outlook tend to spend more. If we assume Target’s policies favored the more liberal party, then it would be reasonable to believe that sales are impacted by more than the boycott. They also are suffering from consumers who identify with Target’s views being less likely to spend lavishly since they had a weaker economic outlook.The second reason is that the CEO’s views of comparable sales figures for 2017 may include a dismal macroeconomic outlook. Target’s management didn’t provide estimates for GDP growth, for sales at Wal Mart, or sales at Costco (NASDAQ: COST). It is quite possible that weak guidance compared to the guidance for peers is reflecting a difference in macroeconomic outlooks.”With a keen understanding of the way management’s political views could be influencing their expectations, I was confident the company moncler outlet would beat on earnings (absent a major recession). No expectation of a surge in earnings was necessary. I simply had to recognize the human moncler sale outlet bias in the guidance range. To be clear, I am not arguing that either Democrats or Republicans were correct. The company’s dividends are far more than covered by operating cash flows, free cash flows to equity, and earnings. Anyone thinking the company is about to fall apart is failing to recognize the strength of the balance sheet and moncler uk outlet the income statement. With no increase to earnings per share over trailing measures, Target could still afford to pay the full dividend and cheap moncler coats mens increase it every year for over a decade. The payout ratio is exceptionally low. The moncler outlet online only way investors get a 5% yield and a low payout ratio from a dividend champion is to buy when the market has lost its mind. There are very few moncler online store places where you can find a dividend champion with such a high yield. 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