DILLARD’S, INC. vs TARGET CORPORATION, two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where DDS and TGT diverge most: on debt / equity, DDS reads 0.00 and TGT reads 0.87; on ev/ebitda, DDS reads 45.1 and TGT reads 9.7. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's DDS price has a different growth bar priced in than TGT (+8.9% implied for DDS vs +8.8% for TGT); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What TGT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | DDS | TGT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $588.34 | $144.51 |
| Market cap | $9.2B | $65.9B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +8.9% | +8.8% |
| P/E | 14.0 | 19.1 |
| P/B | 4.54 | 4.02 |
| P/S | 1.39 | 0.62 |
| EV/EBITDA | 45.1 | 9.7 |
| Revenue growth | +0.9% | +0.7% |
| Gross margin | 43.9% | — |
| Operating margin | — | 4.5% |
| Net margin | 9.9% | 3.2% |
| Return on equity | 32.4% | 21.1% |
| Return on assets | 15.9% | 6.0% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 11.8% |
| FCF yield | 8.2% | 4.6% |
| Dividend yield | 5.3% | 3.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.87 |
| Current ratio | 2.37 | 0.93 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 10.00 | 8.10 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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