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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

Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Costco Wholesale presently has a consensus price target of $1,050.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.58%. Dollar Tree has a consensus price target of $102.68, suggesting a potential downside of 9.02%. Given Costco Wholesale's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Costco Wholesale is more favorable than Dollar Tree.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Costco Wholesale
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63
Dollar Tree
2 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.24

Costco Wholesale has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollar Tree has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

68.5% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Dollar Tree shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Costco Wholesale shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Dollar Tree shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Costco Wholesale had 58 more articles in the media than Dollar Tree. MarketBeat recorded 83 mentions for Costco Wholesale and 25 mentions for Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Costco Wholesale's score of 1.11 indicating that Dollar Tree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Costco Wholesale
56 Very Positive mention(s)
10 Positive mention(s)
14 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Dollar Tree
20 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Costco Wholesale$268.78B1.57$7.37B$17.6353.86
Dollar Tree$17.58B1.34-$3.03B-$13.86-8.14

Costco Wholesale has a net margin of 2.92% compared to Dollar Tree's net margin of -12.15%. Costco Wholesale's return on equity of 30.48% beat Dollar Tree's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Costco Wholesale2.92% 30.48% 10.52%
Dollar Tree -12.15%19.36%5.35%

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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DLTR vs. The Competition

MetricDollar TreeRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$23.55B$92.15B$26.84B$9.78B
Dividend YieldN/A1.80%172.58%4.04%
P/E Ratio-8.1424.8928.0626.39
Price / Sales1.341.4010.0486.63
Price / Cash14.7619.4457.2959.11
Price / Book6.108.994.766.62
Net Income-$3.03B$2.14B$872.89M$265.42M
7 Day Performance-0.43%-0.60%3.07%3.45%
1 Month Performance-1.35%1.98%-0.15%0.45%
1 Year Performance18.30%0.91%16.13%19.41%

Dollar Tree Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DLTR
Dollar Tree
3.2084 of 5 stars
$112.86
+0.8%
$102.68
-9.0%
+16.0%$23.55B$17.58B-8.14214,710Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
COST
Costco Wholesale
4.6165 of 5 stars
$979.35
+0.8%
$1,050.00
+7.2%
+5.5%$434.32B$254.45B55.55333,000Positive News
NVDA
NVIDIA
4.5474 of 5 stars
$182.01
+0.9%
$187.61
+3.1%
+43.7%$4.44T$130.50B58.7136,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
ROST
Ross Stores
4.7421 of 5 stars
$146.06
-0.6%
$159.06
+8.9%
-3.8%$47.77B$21.13B23.07107,000Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
ULTA
Ulta Beauty
3.638 of 5 stars
$516.87
-0.8%
$475.17
-8.1%
+40.3%$23.23B$11.30B20.1958,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
ANF
Abercrombie & Fitch
3.4464 of 5 stars
$95.67
+2.0%
$111.88
+16.9%
-41.6%$4.56B$4.95B9.4239,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
ARCO
Arcos Dorados
3.9951 of 5 stars
$7.36
-0.1%
$8.80
+19.6%
-22.1%$1.55B$4.47B11.6898,615
BURL
Burlington Stores
4.4645 of 5 stars
$278.06
-0.8%
$317.57
+14.2%
+1.3%$17.54B$10.63B34.1277,532News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
DG
Dollar General
4.1923 of 5 stars
$112.32
-0.4%
$108.80
-3.1%
-11.2%$24.72B$40.61B21.44194,200Upcoming Earnings
DKS
DICK'S Sporting Goods
4.8365 of 5 stars
$223.50
-0.2%
$223.06
-0.2%
-3.6%$17.89B$13.44B15.9956,100News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
KR
Kroger
4.5229 of 5 stars
$69.85
+0.2%
$70.53
+1.0%
+30.9%$46.16B$147.12B19.03409,000Trending News

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This page (NASDAQ:DLTR) was last updated on 8/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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