If You Invested $10,000 in Target in January, This Is How Much You'd Have Now

Managing through the coronavirus crisis has been made just a little bit easier by some of the big essential retail and food companies. Grocery stores like Kroger and home improvement chains like Lowe's and Home Depot have thrived as people stocked up on goods and made the best of stay-at-home restrictions. Even normally sleepy consumer staples names like Clorox have been working overtime to satisfy demand in the battle against the virus.  

So it would also make sense that the biggest retailers like Walmart and Target (NYSE: TGT) would do well in this environment. And they have. Even with competition from Amazon, both big-box chains have rolled out curbside pickup and focused on delivery. But even though it beats the S&P 500 index year to date, if you had invested $10,000 in Target at the beginning of the year, you'd be left lagging behind all of those other big names right now. 

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