Target is up over 84% in the last year, and the reason why says a lot about how investing actually works. The company was struggling not too long ago. Flat growth, nervous investors, a beaten-down stock price. But here’s the thing most people don’t think about: a stock price is often more about sentiment than substance, how people feel about a company in the moment. And that feeling can shift a lot faster than the business itself does. When a solid company hits a rough patch, disappointing earnings, bad headlines, a slow quarter, it doesn’t necessarily mean something is actually wrong. Sometimes it just means the market has temporarily turned on it. And that’s often when the best opportunities show up. The investors who got in on Target while everyone else was nervous weren’t taking a wild guess. They knew how to separate a company that’s genuinely struggling from one that’s just out of favor for a moment. That’s a skill worth building. Want to learn how to spot opportunities like ...