DLTR vs. COST, NVDA, ROST, ULTA, ANF, ARCO, BURL, DG, DKS, and KR
Should you be buying Dollar Tree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollar Tree include Costco Wholesale (COST), NVIDIA (NVDA), Ross Stores (ROST), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Burlington Stores (BURL), Dollar General (DG), DICK'S Sporting Goods (DKS), and Kroger (KR).
Dollar Tree vs. Its Competitors
Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) 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 institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation and dividends.
Dollar Tree presently has a consensus target price of $110.06, suggesting a potential upside of 26.15%. Costco Wholesale has a consensus target price of $1,067.19, suggesting a potential upside of 17.00%. Given Dollar Tree's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dollar Tree is more favorable than Costco Wholesale.
In the previous week, Costco Wholesale had 92 more articles in the media than Dollar Tree. MarketBeat recorded 120 mentions for Costco Wholesale and 28 mentions for Dollar Tree. Costco Wholesale's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Dollar Tree's score of 0.45 indicating that Costco Wholesale is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dollar Tree has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Costco Wholesale has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
97.4% of Dollar Tree shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Dollar Tree shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Costco Wholesale has a net margin of 2.94% compared to Dollar Tree's net margin of -13.46%. Costco Wholesale's return on equity of 30.09% beat Dollar Tree's return on equity.
Costco Wholesale has higher revenue and earnings than Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Costco Wholesale, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Costco Wholesale beats Dollar Tree on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:DLTR) was last updated on 10/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
