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Target Pokémon card sales band and retail cut, 2025

2025

EstimateOur model or estimate. Treat it as an order of magnitude.

What this is

Shares against Circana's Pokémon US toy-property $2.5bn (cards are inside Circana's toy definition,) and ex-Japan Pokémon card retail at MSRP $2.34–3.05bn. Target's cut = (1 − store cost) × sales, store cost 0.50–0.65 of list.

The values

  • Target trading cards: $1,000m
  • Pokémon at target: $500–1,000m
  • Share of circana US Pokémon property 2.5bn: 0.2 to 0.4
  • Share of exJapan Pokémon card retail at list price: 0.164 to 0.427
  • Target retail cut $ million at cost 0.50 0.65: 175 to 500

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

Show the working
  1. 0.5 × 1,000 = 500 (floor,)
  2. cap 1,000
  3. 500/2,500 = 0.20, 1,000/2,500 = 0.40
  4. 500/3,050 = 0.164, 1,000/2,340 = 0.427
  5. (1 − 0.65) × 500 = 175, (1 − 0.50) × 1,000 = 500