"Are we entering a stage where P/E matters?"  -It sure seems that way....but technicals won't be less important. 
    WMT with a 50 PE vs TGT with a 17 seems crazy but I dug into it a bit more just now (with a better platform for fundamentals) and found that "normalized PE" for WMT vs TGT is  WMT/18 and TGT/23...which would suggest that TGT may actually be more expensive than WMT.  I don't know the details past that.Maybe WMT took a big write down last year that decreased their earning on a one time basis.

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