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According to Piper Jaffray, Dollar Tree Stores (NASDAQ: DLTR) Overweight rating is reiterated. Piper Jaffray said that it is reiterating its Overweight rating and $87 price target in front of DLTR's Q2 F11 earnings release on Thursday, August 18. “We continue to view the company as one of our top...

Goldman Sachs has upgraded Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO) from Neutral to buy and has raised th eprice target from $57 to $60.

TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) announces its next round of earnings this Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Tuesday's second quarter earnings announcement. Earnings and Revenue: Analysts are predicting an EPS reading of 88 cents/share and revenues of $...

Brian Sozzi of Wall Street Strategies is out with a research report discussing earnings from Macy's (NYSE: M) and Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), as well as the health of the retail sector. In the note, Sozzi says that the strong reports from Macy's and Kohl's have defied the conventional wisdom of consumer...

Jefferies & Company has downgraded the following companies: Costco (NASDAQ: COST) $74.66, from Buy to Hold PT from $93 to $71 Home Depot (NYSE: HD) $30.15, from Buy to Hold, PT from $44 to $33 Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) $46.56, from Buy to Hold, PT from $63 to $50 Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) $19.17, from...

Morgan Stanley added Target (NYSE: TGT) to Best Idea list. At the moment, the rating agency has an Overweight rating and a price target of $64 placed on the company's stock. On Tuesday, TGT added 5.4% to its value to finish the day at $48.95.

Shares of Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO) are higher on the session by 0.75%, currently trading at $45.48. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months and is currently trading below the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short while...

Morgan Stanley reiterated its Overweight rating on Target (NYSE: TGT). At the moment, the rating agency has a price target of $64 placed on the company's stock. On Monday, TGT lost 4.54% of its value to finish the day at $46.44.

US stock futures are lower this morning, after Standard & Poor's downgraded the US debt rating. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 175 points to 11,227.00 and S&P 500 index futures fell 18.90 points to 1,178.90. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 37.25 points to 2,149.75. US...

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc (NYSE: DTG) is projected to report its Q2 EPS at $1.37 on revenue of $408.57 million. MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is projected to report a FQ4 loss at $0.13 per share on revenue of $1.59 billion. 99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) is expected to...

According to Piper Jaffray, Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) reported a Q2 comp of -1.5%, which was ahead of PJC of -2% and consensus of -1.8% and in the middle of guidance of flat to -3%. Piper Jaffray said that retail sales of $1,152.7M were slightly below the estimate of $1,158.9M. “We remain Neutral on...

Piper Jaffray has lowered the price target on Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) from $39 to $35 and maintains its Neutral rating.

Shares of Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO) are lower on the session by 3.33%, currently trading at $49.61. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months and is currently trading below the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short while...

Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) today reported that its net retail sales for the four weeks ended July 30, 2011 were $4,840 million, an increase of 5.6 percent from $4,585 million for the four weeks ended July 31, 2010. On this same basis, July comparable-store sales increased 4.1 percent.

Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) is reporting second quarter retail sales for the fiscal quarter ended July 30, 2011 of $1,152.7 million, an increase of 1.8% compared to $1,132.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2010. Comparable store sales for stores open at least two years at the beginning of...