In the financial year 2024, 22.36 percent of Target Corporation's merchandise sales corresponded to the food and beverage segment. Meanwhile, household essentials represented 17.47 percent of the total merchandise sales. Merchandise sales represent the vast majority of Target's revenues. The company also has other streams of revenue, including credit card profit-sharing income from their arrangement with the TD Bank Group. Beauty at Target In a 2024 survey among Generation Z in the United States, 10 percent of teenage girls named Target as a shopping destination they visited to buy beauty products. This may not sound high, but it earned Target third place of all shops in the country, ahead of other major retailers Walmart and Amazon. It was, however, a considerable distance behind the two most popular destinations, specialist beauty brands Sephora and Ulta. These findings are reflected in a different study of the same retailers, with Target having the third lowest average age of female beauty consumers, at 44 years old. Gen Z clothing purchases There is also a large Generation Z market available to Target in the clothing category. In 2023, Gen Z consumers voted big box stores, such as Target and Walmart, as the second most popular shopping destination for apparel, with 16 percent of responses. This was only one percentage point behind online stores.

With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.