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Dollarama (DOL) Competitors

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C$189.71 +0.25 (+0.13%)
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DOL vs. L, ATD.B, ATD.A, WN, MRU, SAP, EMP.A, PRMW, PBH, and MFI

Should you be buying Dollarama stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollarama include Loblaw Companies (L), Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD.B), Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD.A), George Weston (WN), Metro (MRU), Saputo (SAP), Empire (EMP.A), Primo Water (PRMW), Premium Brands (PBH), and Maple Leaf Foods (MFI). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.

Dollarama vs. Its Competitors

Loblaw Companies (TSE:L) and Dollarama (TSE:DOL) are both large-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and dividends.

Loblaw Companies has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollarama has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Dollarama had 1 more articles in the media than Loblaw Companies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Dollarama and 0 mentions for Loblaw Companies. Dollarama's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Loblaw Companies' score of 0.13 indicating that Dollarama is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Loblaw Companies Neutral
Dollarama Neutral

Loblaw Companies presently has a consensus price target of C$236.88, suggesting a potential upside of 5.26%. Dollarama has a consensus price target of C$186.36, suggesting a potential downside of 1.77%. Given Loblaw Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Loblaw Companies is more favorable than Dollarama.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Loblaw Companies
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
Dollarama
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

20.7% of Loblaw Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.9% of Dollarama shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.8% of Loblaw Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Dollarama shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Dollarama has a net margin of 17.85% compared to Loblaw Companies' net margin of 3.71%. Dollarama's return on equity of 135.38% beat Loblaw Companies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Loblaw Companies3.71% 19.90% 5.89%
Dollarama 17.85%135.38%16.58%

Loblaw Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Dollarama. Loblaw Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dollarama, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Loblaw CompaniesC$60.23B1.13C$2.23BC$7.3730.54
DollaramaC$6.06B8.65C$1.08BC$3.9348.32

Loblaw Companies pays an annual dividend of C$2.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Dollarama pays an annual dividend of C$0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Loblaw Companies pays out 27.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dollarama pays out 9.4% 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.

Summary

Dollarama beats Loblaw Companies on 11 of the 18 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 TSE 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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DOL vs. The Competition

MetricDollaramaDiscount Stores IndustryDefensive SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$52.43BC$27.57BC$6.87BC$6.17B
Dividend Yield0.26%2.62%3.16%6.72%
P/E Ratio48.3217.5713.2556.52
Price / Sales8.6522.9997.401,068.65
Price / Cash341.46179.92144.7483.29
Price / Book42.3522.544.104.66
Net IncomeC$1.08BC$752.08MC$999.43MC$301.20M
7 Day Performance-1.13%-2.49%0.29%1.72%
1 Month Performance7.73%1.72%-0.64%4.24%
1 Year Performance47.34%7.96%66.46%26.96%

Dollarama Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DOL
Dollarama
0.5335 of 5 stars
C$189.71
+0.1%
C$186.36
-1.8%
+49.1%C$52.43BC$6.06B48.328,440Dividend Announcement
L
Loblaw Companies
1.736 of 5 stars
C$225.25
+0.7%
C$236.88
+5.2%
+37.3%C$68.10BC$60.23B30.5712,000
ATD.B
Alimentation Couche-Tard
N/AN/AC$88.50
+∞
N/AC$52.83BC$53.19B16.01130,000Positive News
ATD.A
Alimentation Couche-Tard
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$52.79BC$53.19B15.99130,000
WN
George Weston
0.7815 of 5 stars
C$273.11
+0.9%
C$282.42
+3.4%
+33.5%C$35.45BC$60.42B54.67220,000
MRU
Metro
0.4293 of 5 stars
C$106.97
+0.7%
C$104.22
-2.6%
+37.0%C$23.66BC$21.29B24.6997,000News Coverage
SAP
Saputo
2.2736 of 5 stars
C$27.87
+2.4%
C$30.88
+10.8%
-12.4%C$11.75BC$18.74B-74.62112,000
EMP.A
Empire
1.3964 of 5 stars
C$56.51
+0.7%
C$57.43
+1.6%
+59.7%C$7.93BC$30.87B20.62125,000Dividend Increase
PRMW
Primo Water
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$6.00BC$1.85B54.209,230
PBH
Premium Brands
2.3635 of 5 stars
C$81.22
+0.7%
C$101.90
+25.5%
-12.9%C$3.62BC$6.41B36.16540
MFI
Maple Leaf Foods
1.0328 of 5 stars
C$28.37
+0.4%
C$31.80
+12.1%
+28.0%C$3.55BC$4.93B104.7013,500News Coverage

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This page (TSE:DOL) was last updated on 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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