Head to head · SEC data as of September 11, 2026
Dollar General
53
Quality score · out of 100
Dollar Tree
65
Quality score · out of 100
Dollar Tree comes in ahead: a quality score of 65 versus 53 for Dollar General. Dollar Tree wins on net margin (8% vs 3.9%), ROE (47.1% vs 18.3%) and earnings growth (6.9% vs -5.7%). Dollar General answers with revenue growth (4.8% vs -4.3%).
| Metric | Dollar General | Dollar Tree |
|---|---|---|
| Quality score (0-100) | 53 | 65 |
| Net margin | 3.9% | 8% |
| Gross margin | 31.2% | 35.1% |
| ROE | 18.3% | 47.1% |
| Net debt/EBITDA | 0.84× | 0.66× |
| FCF margin | 4.6% | — |
| Revenue growth (annualized) | 4.8% | -4.3% |
| Earnings growth (annualized) | -5.7% | 6.9% |
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Dollar General. Dollar General is rural America's discount store: over 20,000 small stores serving the low-income consumer. Its customer is the first to feel inflation and the last to recover — the company is a thermometer of grassroots economic stress.
Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree is the everything-for-a-dollar chain (now slightly more): thousands of stores where the fixed low price is the hook. Its purchase of Family Dollar, the sister chain for low-income neighborhoods, turned out to be a decade of indigestion it is still purging.
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Who has the stronger fundamentals today, Dollar General or Dollar Tree?
By the StockSemáforo model (profitability, growth and financial strength, built on official SEC data), Dollar Tree scores higher: 65 versus 53 out of 100. The score is recomputed nightly with the latest filings.
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Data: official SEC filings (EDGAR) · Recomputed on September 11, 2026
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