At Smead Capital Management, our low portfolio turnover approach often results in prolonged periods of inactivity. Rest assured, however, that a great deal happens underneath the surface each day as our investment team continues its never-ending mission to continuously improve our portfolios and avoid stock market failure on behalf of our investors. A key part of these efforts includes constantly looking for new investment opportunities, and comparing these opportunities to businesses we already own. We agree with the late, great Julian Robertson, who posited that each day we choose to hold a stock is an implicit decision to continue to buy it. With this in mind, we will lay out why we continue to own Target instead of a former holding and what we have labeled “the Mother Theresa of common stocks,” Costco. […]