DG vs. TGT, DLTR, BJ, OLLI, MNSO, FIVE, PSMT, WMT, COST, and ORLY
Should you be buying Dollar General stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollar General include Target (TGT), Dollar Tree (DLTR), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), MINISO Group (MNSO), Five Below (FIVE), PriceSmart (PSMT), Walmart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY).
Dollar General vs.
Target (NYSE:TGT) and Dollar General (NYSE:DG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
79.7% of Target shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Dollar General shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Target shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Dollar General shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Target presently has a consensus price target of $132.37, indicating a potential upside of 36.88%. Dollar General has a consensus price target of $94.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.13%. Given Target's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Target is more favorable than Dollar General.
In the previous week, Dollar General had 23 more articles in the media than Target. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Dollar General and 5 mentions for Target. Dollar General's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Target's score of 0.71 indicating that Dollar General is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Target has higher revenue and earnings than Dollar General. Target is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dollar General, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Target has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar General has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Target has a net margin of 4.06% compared to Dollar General's net margin of 3.33%. Target's return on equity of 31.11% beat Dollar General's return on equity.
Target pays an annual dividend of $4.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Dollar General pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Target pays out 50.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dollar General pays out 46.2% 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. Target has raised its dividend for 54 consecutive years. Target is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Target received 6294 more outperform votes than Dollar General when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 89.41% of users gave Target an outperform vote while only 67.00% of users gave Dollar General an outperform vote.
Summary
Target beats Dollar General on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DG) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
