DG vs. DLTR, TGT, FIVE, TSCO, EBAY, BLDR, CVNA, QSR, FAST, and YUM
Should you be buying Dollar General stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollar General include Dollar Tree (DLTR), Target (TGT), Five Below (FIVE), Tractor Supply (TSCO), eBay (EBAY), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Carvana (CVNA), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Fastenal (FAST), and Yum! Brands (YUM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) and Dollar General (NYSE:DG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
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.
Dollar General has a net margin of 4.29% compared to Dollar General's net margin of -3.26%. Dollar Tree's return on equity of 26.13% beat Dollar General's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dollar Tree had 1 more articles in the media than Dollar General. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Dollar Tree and 14 mentions for Dollar General. Dollar General's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Dollar Tree's score of 0.46 indicating that Dollar Tree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dollar General received 82 more outperform votes than Dollar Tree when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.36% of users gave Dollar General an outperform vote while only 67.73% of users gave Dollar Tree an outperform vote.
97.4% of Dollar Tree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Dollar General shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.8% of Dollar Tree shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Dollar General shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dollar Tree has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar General has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dollar Tree presently has a consensus price target of $150.05, suggesting a potential upside of 25.69%. Dollar General has a consensus price target of $153.08, suggesting a potential upside of 9.90%. Given Dollar General's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Dollar Tree is more favorable than Dollar General.
Summary
Dollar Tree beats Dollar General on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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