Most retail experts believe Bed Bath & Beyond has one foot in a grave, and a visit to a couple of locations indicate a retailer under severe stress amid elevated discounting and slow-moving inventory.
Aside from the movement of stock prices, investors may hesitate to take advantage of dividend stocks. Target (NYSE: TGT), Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN), and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) could serve as excellent starter stocks for such investors.
Target (NYSE: TGT) investors have some big questions heading into the retailer's upcoming earnings announcement. Rival Walmart (NYSE: WMT) recently lowered its earnings outlook for a second consecutive time while noting that consumers are rapidly shifting their spending patterns in response to the waning pandemic threat and inflation.