DLTR vs. DG, BJ, OLLI, PSMT, BIG, TGT, FIVE, TSCO, EBAY, and BLDR
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), Tractor Supply (TSCO), eBay (EBAY), and Builders FirstSource (BLDR).
Dollar General (NYSE:DG) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Dollar General received 83 more outperform votes than Dollar Tree when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.42% of users gave Dollar General an outperform vote while only 67.82% of users gave Dollar Tree an outperform vote.
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.
91.8% of Dollar General shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Dollar Tree shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Dollar General shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Dollar Tree shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Dollar General has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar Tree has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dollar General had 3 more articles in the media than Dollar Tree. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Dollar General and 20 mentions for Dollar Tree. Dollar General's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Dollar Tree's score of 0.17 indicating that Dollar Tree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dollar General presently has a consensus price target of $153.04, suggesting a potential downside of 1.91%. Dollar Tree has a consensus price target of $150.75, suggesting a potential upside of 13.20%. Given Dollar General's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dollar Tree is more favorable than Dollar General.
Summary
Dollar General and Dollar Tree tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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