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Consolidated Statements of Operations
−Removed: Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
−Removed: (millions, except per share data) (unaudited) July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022 July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
+Added: (millions, except per share data) (unaudited) October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022 October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Sales $ 25,004 $ 26,122 $ 74,336 $ 76,605
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Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
−Removed: Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
−Removed: (millions) (unaudited) July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022 July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
+Added: (millions) (unaudited) October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022 October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Net earnings $ 971 $ 712 $ 2,756 $ 1,904
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Consolidated Statements of Financial Position
−Removed: (millions, except footnotes) (unaudited) July 29,
+Added: (millions, except footnotes) (unaudited) October 28,
2023 January 28,
−Removed: 2023 July 30,
+Added: 2023 October 29,
Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,910 $ 2,229 $ 954
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Common Stock Authorized 6,000,000,000 shares, $ 0.0833 par value;
−Removed: 461,600,640 , 460,346,947 , and 460,236,393 shares issued and outstanding as of July 29, 2023, January 28, 2023, and July 30, 2022, respectively.
+Added: 461,651,176 , 460,346,947 , and 460,297,654 shares issued and outstanding as of October 28, 2023, January 28, 2023, and October 29, 2022, respectively.
Preferred Stock Authorized 5,000,000 shares, $ 0.01 par value;
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
−Removed: Six Months Ended
−Removed: (millions) (unaudited) July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: Nine Months Ended
+Added: (millions) (unaudited) October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Operating activities
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Accrued and other liabilities 528 ( 578 )
−Removed: Cash provided by (required for) operating activities 3,398 ( 47 )
+Added: Cash provided by operating activities
Investing activities
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Change in commercial paper, net — 2,104
+Added: Additions to long-term debt — 991
Reductions of long-term debt ( 114 ) ( 139 )
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July 29, 2023 461.6 $ 38 $ 6,610 $ 5,767 $ ( 425 ) $ 11,990
−Removed: We declared $ 1.10 and $ 1.08 dividends per share for the three months ended July 29, 2023 and July 30, 2022, respectively, and $ 4.14 per share for the fiscal year ended January 28, 2023.
+Added: Net earnings — — — 971 — 971
+Added: Other comprehensive loss
+Added: — — — — ( 5 ) ( 5 )
+Added: Dividends declared — — — ( 513 ) — ( 513 )
+Added: Stock options and awards 0.1 — 71 — — 71
+Added: October 28, 2023 461.7 $ 38 $ 6,681 $ 6,225 $ ( 430 ) $ 12,514
+Added: We declared $ 1.10 and $ 1.08 dividends per share for the three months ended October 28, 2023 and October 29, 2022, respectively, and $ 4.14 per share for the fiscal year ended January 28, 2023.
See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements .
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We also earn revenues from a variety of other sources, most notably credit card profit-sharing income from our arrangement with TD Bank Group (TD).
−Removed: Revenue Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
−Removed: (millions) July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022 July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: Revenue Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
+Added: (millions) October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022 October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Apparel & accessories (a)
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Sales are recognized net of expected returns, which we estimate using historical return patterns and our expectation of future returns.
−Removed: As of July 29, 2023, January 28, 2023, and July 30, 2022, the accrual for estimated returns was $ 177 million, $ 174 million, and $ 175 million, respectively.
+Added: As of October 28, 2023, January 28, 2023, and October 29, 2022, the accrual for estimated returns was $ 207 million, $ 174 million, and $ 209 million, respectively.
Revenue from Target gift card sales is recognized upon gift card redemption, which is typically within one year of issuance.
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2023 Gift Cards Issued During Current Period But Not Redeemed (b)
−Removed: Revenue Recognized From Beginning Liability July 29,
+Added: Revenue Recognized From Beginning Liability October 28,
Gift card liability (a)
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Financial Instruments Measured On a Recurring Basis Fair Value
−Removed: (millions) Classification Measurement Level July 29, 2023 January 28, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: (millions) Classification Measurement Level October 28, 2023 January 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Short-term investments Cash and Cash Equivalents Level 1 $ 1,004 $ 1,343 $ —
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Significant Financial Instruments Not Measured at Fair Value (a)
−Removed: July 29, 2023 January 28, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: October 28, 2023 January 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Value Carrying
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The arrangements can be terminated by either party with notice ranging up to 120 days.
−Removed: Our outstanding vendor obligations eligible for early payment under these arrangements totaled $ 3.7 billion, $ 3.4 billion, and $ 4.6 billion as of July 29, 2023, January 28, 2023, and July 30, 2022, respectively, and are included within Accounts Payable on our Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.
+Added: Our outstanding vendor obligations eligible for early payment under these arrangements totaled $ 4.5 billion, $ 3.4 billion, and $ 4.5 billion as of October 28, 2023, January 28, 2023, and October 29, 2022, respectively, and are included within Accounts Payable on our Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.
Our outstanding vendor obligations do not represent actual receivables sold by our vendors to the financial institutions, which may be lower.
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We review long-lived assets for impairment when store performance expectations, events, or changes in circumstances—such as a decision to relocate or close a store, office, or distribution center, discontinue a project, or make significant software changes—indicate that the asset’s carrying value may not be recoverable.
−Removed: We recognized impairment charges of $ 33 million for the three and six months ended July 29, 2023.
−Removed: We recognized impairment charges of $ 27 million and $ 50 million for the three and six months ended July 30, 2022, respectively.
+Added: We recognized impairment charges of $ 64 million and $ 98 million for the three and nine months ended October 28, 2023, respectively.
+Added: We recognized impairment charges of $ 5 million and $ 55 million for the three and nine months ended October 29, 2022, respectively.
These impairment charges are included in Selling, General and Administrative Expenses (SG&A).
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We obtain short-term financing from time to time under our commercial paper program.
−Removed: For the six months ended July 29, 2023 and July 30, 2022, the maximum amounts outstanding were $ 90 million and $ 1.5 billion, respectively, and the average daily amounts outstanding were $ 2 million and $ 538 million, respectively, at a weighted average annual interest rate of 4.9 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively.
−Removed: No balances were outstanding as of July 29, 2023.
−Removed: As of July 30, 2022, $ 1.5 billion was outstanding and is classified within Current Portion of Long-Term Debt and Other Borrowings on our Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.
+Added: For the three months ended October 28, 2023, there were no commercial paper amounts outstanding.
+Added: For the three months ended October 29, 2022, the maximum amount outstanding was $ 2.1 billion and the average daily amount outstanding was $ 1.1 billion, at a weighted average annual interest rate of 2.8 percent.
+Added: For the nine months ended October 28, 2023 and October 29, 2022, the maximum amounts outstanding were $ 90 million and $ 2.1 billion, respectively, and the average daily amounts outstanding were $ 1 million and $ 713 million, respectively, at a weighted average annual interest rate of 4.8 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively.
+Added: No balances were outstanding as of October 28, 2023.
+Added: As of October 29, 2022, $ 2.1 billion was outstanding and is classified within Current Portion of Long-Term Debt and Other Borrowings on our Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.
+Added: In October 2023, we obtained a new committed $ 1.0 billion 364 -day unsecured revolving credit facility that will expire in October 2024 and terminated our prior 364 -day credit facility.
+Added: We also exercised our option to extend our existing five-year unsecured revolving credit facility, which has a maximum committed capacity of $ 3.0 billion and now expires in October 2028.
+Added: No balances were outstanding under either credit facility at any time during 2023 or 2022.
Derivative Financial Instruments
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Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements provides the fair value and classification of these instruments.
−Removed: We were party to interest rate swaps with notional amounts totaling $ 2.45 billion as of July 29, 2023 and January 28, 2023, and $ 2.25 billion as of July 30, 2022.
+Added: We were party to interest rate swaps with notional amounts totaling $ 2.45 billion as of October 28, 2023, January 28, 2023, and October 29, 2022.
We pay a floating rate and receive a fixed rate under each of these agreements.
−Removed: All of the agreements are designated as fair value hedges, and all were considered to be perfectly effective under the shortcut method during the three and six months ended July 29, 2023 and July 30, 2022.
+Added: All of the agreements are designated as fair value hedges, and all were considered to be perfectly effective under the shortcut method during the three and nine months ended October 28, 2023 and October 29, 2022.
During 2023, we amended interest rate swaps with notional amounts totaling $ 1.5 billion to replace the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) with the daily Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) as part of our planned reference rate reform activities.
These amendments did not result in any change to our application of hedge accounting or any impact to our consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We were party to forward-starting interest rate swaps with notional amounts totaling $ 2.15 billion as of July 30, 2022.
+Added: We were party to forward-starting interest rate swaps with notional amounts totaling $ 1.45 billion as of October 29, 2022.
During 2022, we terminated all remaining forward-starting interest rate swap agreements.
The resulting gains upon termination were recorded in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and will be recognized as a reduction to Net Interest Expense over the respective term of the debt.
−Removed: Effect of Hedges on Debt
−Removed: July 29, 2023 January 28, 2023 July 30, 2022
−Removed: Long-term debt and other borrowings
−Removed: Carrying amount of hedged debt $ 2,305 $ 2,366 $ 2,263
−Removed: Cumulative hedging adjustments, included in carrying amount ( 136 ) ( 74 ) 22
TARGET CORPORATION
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NOTES Index to Notes
−Removed: Effect of Hedges on Net Interest Expense Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
−Removed: (millions) July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022 July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: Effect of Hedges on Debt
+Added: October 28, 2023 January 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
+Added: Long-term debt and other borrowings
+Added: Carrying amount of hedged debt $ 2,245 $ 2,366 $ 2,294
+Added: Cumulative hedging adjustments, included in carrying amount ( 197 ) ( 74 ) ( 146 )
+Added: Effect of Hedges on Net Interest Expense Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
+Added: (millions) October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022 October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Gain (loss) on fair value hedges recognized in Net Interest Expense
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We periodically repurchase shares of our common stock under a board-authorized repurchase program through a combination of open market transactions, accelerated share repurchase (ASR) arrangements, and other privately negotiated transactions with financial institutions.
−Removed: We did no t repurchase any of our shares during the six months ended July 29, 2023.
−Removed: Share Repurchase Activity Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
−Removed: (millions, except per share data) July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022 (a)
−Removed: July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022 (a)
+Added: We did no t repurchase any of our shares during the nine months ended October 28, 2023.
+Added: Share Repurchase Activity Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
+Added: (millions, except per share data) October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022 October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Number of shares purchased — — — 12.5
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Total investment $ — $ — $ — $ 2,646
−Removed: (a) Includes activity related to the ASR arrangement that we entered into during the first quarter of 2022 because final settlement occurred in the second quarter of 2022.
−Removed: Under the ASR arrangement, we repurchased 12.5 million shares for a total cash investment of $ 2.6 billion.
−Removed: We did not enter into an ASR arrangement during any other periods presented.
Pension Benefits
We provide pension plan benefits to eligible team members.
−Removed: Net Pension Benefits Expense Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
−Removed: (millions) Classification July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022 July 29, 2023 July 30, 2022
+Added: Net Pension Benefits Expense Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
+Added: (millions) Classification October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022 October 28, 2023 October 29, 2022
Service cost benefits earned SG&A $ 19 $ 22 $ 58 $ 68
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January 28, 2023 $ 300 $ ( 23 ) $ ( 696 ) $ ( 419 )
+Added: Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications, net of tax — ( 1 ) — ( 1 )
Amounts reclassified from AOCI, net of tax ( 13 ) — 3 ( 10 )
−Removed: July 29, 2023 $ 291 $ ( 23 ) $ ( 693 ) $ ( 425 )
+Added: October 28, 2023 $ 287 $ ( 24 ) $ ( 693 ) $ ( 430 )
TARGET CORPORATION
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.