DLTR vs. DG, BJ, OLLI, PSMT, BIG, TGT, FIVE, MNSO, EBAY, and TSCO
Should you be buying Dollar Tree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollar Tree include Dollar General (DG), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), PriceSmart (PSMT), Big Lots (BIG), Target (TGT), Five Below (FIVE), MINISO Group (MNSO), eBay (EBAY), and Tractor Supply (TSCO).
Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) and Dollar General (NYSE:DG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Dollar General received 83 more outperform votes than Dollar Tree when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.36% of users gave Dollar General an outperform vote while only 67.71% of users gave Dollar Tree an outperform vote.
Dollar General has a net margin of 4.29% compared to Dollar Tree's net margin of -3.26%. Dollar General's return on equity of 26.13% beat Dollar Tree's return on equity.
Dollar Tree has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar General has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dollar Tree presently has a consensus target price of $150.05, suggesting a potential upside of 23.25%. Dollar General has a consensus target price of $153.08, suggesting a potential upside of 7.75%. Given Dollar Tree's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Dollar Tree is more favorable than Dollar General.
Dollar General has higher revenue and earnings than Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dollar General, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Dollar General had 12 more articles in the media than Dollar Tree. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Dollar General and 11 mentions for Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Dollar General's score of 0.48 indicating that Dollar Tree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.4% of Dollar Tree shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Dollar General shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Dollar Tree shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Dollar General shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Dollar Tree and Dollar General tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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