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Retail earnings and oil: What NYSE insider Jay Woods is watching this week

Cnbc · · 515 words · By Alex Harring
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Why it matters

See the full discussion above.) Retail stocks are taking center stage this week as a handful of major names in the sector report earnings, according to Jay Woods, chief market strategist at Freedom Capital Markets.

Common ground

Home Depot , Lowe's , Target and Walmart all release quarterly results this week.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “He said Exxon Mobil and Chevron both appear to be rallying to 52-week highs.”
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Claim 2: “Still, the stock is on track for its fourth straight winning year.”
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Claim 3: “Home Depot , Lowe's , Target and Walmart all release quarterly results this week.”
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Three independent web search results confirm that Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, and Walmart are all reporting quarterly earnings within the same week.
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web search NEUTRAL — Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Home Depot (HD), and Lowe's (LOW) are all reporting quarterly earnings results next week. RBC Capital Markets director of US equity research, Steven Shemesh, explains how …
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/video/weeks-walmart-target-earn…
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web search NEUTRAL — Companies including Target, Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe's reported Q2 results this week. Here's what you need to know.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1428049010737225729
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web search NEUTRAL — Target joins Home Depot, Lowe’s and Walmart in reporting quarterly earnings this week, providing a gauge of consumer resilience under 6.68% average 30-year mortgage rates and rising energy costs.
https://rallies.ai/news/target-to-report-earnings-as-april-s…
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Claim 4: “underperforming the S & P 500 over that timeframe.”
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The evidence provides general information about Walmart and the S&P 500 but does not contain a comparison of Walmart's performance against the S&P 500 for the year 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — S&P Dow Jones Indices updates the components of the S&P 500 periodically, typically in response to mergers and acquisitions, corporate spin-offs, or in conjunction with the quarterly rebalancing. Betw…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_components_of_the_S…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 companies with large market capitalizations, including two share classes…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_500_companies
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 100 (Standard and Poor's 100) is a stock market index of United States blue chip large-cap (and/or mega-cap) stocks maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_100
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Claim 5: “Shares were marginally lower on Monday, trading at about $338.”
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Claim 6: “Walmart shares have added about 3% in 2026”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Walmart Inc. is an American multinational omnichannel retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, and g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Walmart+ is a paid subscription service and loyalty program launched by Walmart on September 15, 2020. Its services include free shipping, discounts at select gas stations, free online pet care, 25% d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart+
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Walmart shooting may refer to: 2014 Las Vegas shootings, at and near a Walmart Supercenter in Las Vegas, Nevada 2014 killing of John Crawford III, at a Walmart Supercenter in Beavercreek, Ohio 2017 T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart_shooting
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Claim 7: “putting the stock on track for its first winning year in five.”
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The provided evidence discusses general stock market returns and volatility but contains no specific data regarding Target's annual returns over the last five years.
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web search NEUTRAL — The five-year return factors in the post-pandemic surge and the 2023 recovery.Generally speaking, when estimating the return on your stock-market investment over time, we suggest using an average annu…
https://www.nerdwallet.com/investing/learn/average-stock-mar…
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web search NEUTRAL — The average stock market return of the S&P 500 is about 10% annually – and 6% to 7% when adjusted for inflation. Of course, there have been years with much higher returns and years with much lower ret…
https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-stock-market-retu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Returning to the formula for annualized volatility, the figures above are monthly returns. There are 12 months in the year, so the annualized volatility is calculated by multiplying the square root of…
https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-calculate/annualized-v…
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Claim 8: “Analysts polled the LSEG are bullish: The average one has a buy rating and expects the stock to climb more than 20% in the next 12 months.”
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Claim 9: “Target shares have surged more than 56% in 2026”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TARGET Services (for Transeuropean Automated Real-time Gross-settlement Express Transfer) are payment services operated by the Eurosystem for the euro area and beyond on its proprietary financial mark…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARGET_Services
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Target most commonly refers to: Goal, a vision of the future or desired result that a person or group of people plan to achieve Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting spo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Target Corporation is an American retail corporation headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Target operates small-format and large-format retail stores and hypermarkets. It is the eig…
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Claim 10: “Home Depot , on the other hand, has slipped nearly 2% in 2026”
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Claim 11: “Most analysts have a buy rating, with an average price target suggesting around 10% in upside, per LSEG.”
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Claim 12: “The average analyst has a hold rating and anticipates around 6% downside, per LSEG.”
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The evidence mentions LSEG in the context of the London Stock Exchange and M&A activity, but does not provide the specific analyst rating or downside projection for Target.
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web search NEUTRAL — The average analyst price target for London Stock Exchange Group has been revised downward, decreasing by approximately £2.47. This change reflects ongoing caution from analysts who cite modest change…
https://simplywall.st/stocks/gb/diversified-financials/lse-l…
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web search NEUTRAL — Analysts 12-Month Price Target. Average 11,910.7.According to projections from 15 analysts, the average 12-month price target for London Stock Exchange is 11,910.7 GBP, with a high estimate of 13630 G…
https://in.investing.com/equities/london-stock-exchange-cons…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the LSEG Deal Makers Briefing webinar, the US$8.8 billion takeover bid for Australia’s BlueScope Steel in January helped drive APAC deal volume up to US$50.8 billion, marking a four-year …
https://www.lseg.com/en/insights/data-analytics/separating-t…
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Claim 13: “It's an otherwise light week on the corporate earnings calendar, with only a dozen S & P 500 companies slated to report.”
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The claim states only a dozen S&P 500 companies are reporting. However, evidence directly contradicts this, with one source stating 175 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report and another mentioning 76 companies.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article is a summary of the closing milestones of the S&P 500 Index, a United States stock market index.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_milestones_of_the_S&P_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500) is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States that are considered to have large market ca…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats is a stock market index composed of the companies in the S&P 500 index that have increased their dividends in each of the past 25 consecutive years. It was launched in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_500_Dividend_Aristocrats
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Claim 14: “Target traded slightly lower on the session Monday at roughly $153 per share.”
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No evidence provided confirms Target's specific trading price of $153 on a Monday. One source mentions Target being 'up 68%' relative to Walmart, but not a specific price point.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Monday is the day of the week that takes place between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 8601 standard, it is the first day of the week.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Quindarious "Smoke" Monday (born February 19, 2000) is an American professional football safety the Columbus Aviators of the United Football League (UFL). He played college football at Auburn.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Target Corporation is an American retail corporation headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Target operates small-format and large-format retail stores and hypermarkets. It is the eig…
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