What Dollar Tree Investors Should Keep in Mind

By Naomi Wentworth • Sunday, December 03 12:03 • Permanent Link

After gains of 2.1% this afternoon, Dollar Tree shares are now trading at $126.15. Read below for the essential facts about this stock:

Dollar Tree has logged a -17.0% 52 week change, compared to 14.0% for the S&P 500
DLTR has an average analyst rating of buy and is -14.69% away from its mean target price of $147.87 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $5.27, which brings its trailing Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio to 23.9. The Consumer Discretionary sector's average P/E ratio is 22.96
The company's forward earnings per share (EPS) is $7.01 and its forward P/E ratio is 18.0
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.05 in contrast to the Consumer Discretionary sector's average P/B ratio is 4.24
DLTR has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -19.3% and gross profit margins of 0.3%
The company's free cash flow for the last fiscal year was $366.0 Million and the average free cash flow growth rate is -13.6%
Dollar Tree's revenues have an average growth rate of 4.1% with operating expenses growing at None%. The company's current operating margins stand at 7.9%

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