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$115.58 +2.26 (+1.99%)
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DG vs. CASY, COST, DLTR, LULU, ROST, TSCO, ULTA, BURL, KR, and WMT

Should you be buying Dollar General stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollar General include Casey's General Stores (CASY), Costco Wholesale (COST), Dollar Tree (DLTR), lululemon athletica (LULU), Ross Stores (ROST), Tractor Supply (TSCO), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Burlington Stores (BURL), Kroger (KR), and Walmart (WMT).

Dollar General vs. Its Competitors

Casey's General Stores (NASDAQ:CASY) and Dollar General (NYSE:DG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Casey's General Stores has a net margin of 3.43% compared to Dollar General's net margin of 2.81%. Dollar General's return on equity of 17.93% beat Casey's General Stores' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Casey's General Stores3.43% 16.28% 7.13%
Dollar General 2.81%17.93%4.25%

Casey's General Stores currently has a consensus target price of $467.33, suggesting a potential downside of 9.83%. Dollar General has a consensus target price of $108.40, suggesting a potential downside of 6.21%. Given Dollar General's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dollar General is more favorable than Casey's General Stores.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Casey's General Stores
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58
Dollar General
0 Sell rating(s)
16 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44

85.6% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Dollar General shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Casey's General Stores shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Dollar General shares are owned 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 higher revenue and earnings than Casey's General Stores. Dollar General is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Casey's General Stores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Casey's General Stores$15.94B1.21$546.52M$14.6435.40
Dollar General$40.61B0.63$1.13B$5.2422.06

In the previous week, Dollar General had 9 more articles in the media than Casey's General Stores. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Dollar General and 15 mentions for Casey's General Stores. Dollar General's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Casey's General Stores' score of 1.32 indicating that Dollar General is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Casey's General Stores
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Dollar General
22 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Casey's General Stores pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Dollar General pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Casey's General Stores pays out 15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dollar General pays out 45.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Casey's General Stores has increased its dividend for 24 consecutive years.

Casey's General Stores has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar General has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Dollar General beats Casey's General Stores on 11 of the 20 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 NYSE 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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DG vs. The Competition

MetricDollar GeneralRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$24.94B$92.93B$26.90B$20.70B
Dividend Yield2.08%1.75%174.24%3.67%
P/E Ratio22.0625.0829.2028.65
Price / Sales0.631.402.6257.34
Price / Cash10.9519.7259.4623.59
Price / Book3.439.215.554.32
Net Income$1.13B$2.14B$877.46M$995.66M
7 Day Performance6.49%3.96%1.92%1.91%
1 Month Performance2.57%6.40%-1.05%-0.54%
1 Year Performance-2.21%10.83%21.73%14.76%

Dollar General Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DG
Dollar General
4.3452 of 5 stars
$115.58
+2.0%
$108.40
-6.2%
-2.5%$24.94B$40.61B22.06194,200Positive News
CASY
Casey's General Stores
4.4154 of 5 stars
$523.69
+0.2%
$467.33
-10.8%
+41.0%$19.46B$15.94B35.7549,272Positive News
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.5035 of 5 stars
$955.63
+0.3%
$1,037.48
+8.6%
+20.6%$423.80B$254.45B54.20333,000Trending News
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DLTR
Dollar Tree
3.2783 of 5 stars
$115.28
+0.5%
$97.74
-15.2%
+23.3%$24.05B$18.05B-8.31214,710Positive News
LULU
lululemon athletica
4.8518 of 5 stars
$196.47
+1.6%
$330.20
+68.1%
-18.1%$23.54B$10.75B13.3139,000Analyst Forecast
ROST
Ross Stores
4.5125 of 5 stars
$142.00
+3.6%
$159.06
+12.0%
+6.5%$46.39B$21.13B22.41107,000Positive News
TSCO
Tractor Supply
4.0823 of 5 stars
$59.34
+3.0%
$61.80
+4.2%
+19.1%$31.46B$15.15B29.1152,000Positive News
Dividend Announcement
ULTA
Ulta Beauty
3.5594 of 5 stars
$513.69
+1.2%
$469.09
-8.7%
+57.5%$23.11B$11.30B20.0858,000Trending News
BURL
Burlington Stores
4.1348 of 5 stars
$280.69
+2.7%
$317.57
+13.1%
+14.5%$17.68B$10.63B34.3877,532Positive News
KR
Kroger
4.0258 of 5 stars
$71.71
+0.5%
$70.16
-2.2%
+36.8%$47.36B$146.97B19.53409,000
WMT
Walmart
4.5234 of 5 stars
$99.85
+1.4%
$106.67
+6.8%
+54.1%$795.99B$685.09B42.632,100,000Trending News
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