DLTR vs. TGT, DG, BIG, BJ, FIVE, MNSO, OLLI, PSMT, WMT, and COST
Should you be buying Dollar Tree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollar Tree include Target (TGT), Dollar General (DG), Big Lots (BIG), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Five Below (FIVE), MINISO Group (MNSO), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), PriceSmart (PSMT), Walmart (WMT), and Costco Wholesale (COST). These companies are all part of the "variety stores" industry.
Target (NYSE:TGT) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Target has a net margin of 3.87% compared to Target's net margin of -3.23%. Dollar Tree's return on equity of 31.91% beat Target's return on equity.
Target has higher revenue and earnings than Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Target, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Target has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar Tree has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Target currently has a consensus price target of $178.11, indicating a potential upside of 22.24%. Dollar Tree has a consensus price target of $143.70, indicating a potential upside of 28.83%. Given Target's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dollar Tree is more favorable than Target.
79.7% of Target shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Dollar Tree shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Target shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of Dollar Tree shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Target received 6349 more outperform votes than Dollar Tree when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 90.00% of users gave Target an outperform vote while only 67.79% of users gave Dollar Tree an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Dollar Tree had 59 more articles in the media than Target. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for Dollar Tree and 7 mentions for Target. Target's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Dollar Tree's score of 0.09 indicating that Dollar Tree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Target beats Dollar Tree on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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