DOLLAR TREE, INC. vs PriceSmart, Inc., two Discount Stores stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Dollar Tree sells fixed-price odds and ends across the US; PriceSmart runs membership warehouses across Latin America. Dollar Tree keeps the wider margin, 6.51% to PriceSmart's fee-thin 2.82%, and earns far more on equity, 36.68% to 11.7%. Yet Dollar Tree burns cash at a negative 4.64% free cash yield while PriceSmart holds a positive 1.43% and pays a small 0.64% dividend; Dollar Tree pays none. PriceSmart trades pricier on earnings, 38.68 times to 19.44, though Dollar Tree is higher on book, 6.97 to 4.45. PriceSmart runs lighter debt, 0.15 to 0.84. Wider margins with negative cash versus a slimmer, cash-positive emerging-market club.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | DLTR | PSMT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $124.92 | $196.71 |
| Market cap | $24.7B | $6.0B |
| Sector | Discount Stores | Discount Stores |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +7.4% | +18.6% |
| P/E | 19.6 | 37.8 |
| P/B | 7.03 | 4.28 |
| P/S | 1.25 | 1.05 |
| EV/EBITDA | 11.9 | 17.0 |
| Revenue growth | +9.5% | +10.2% |
| Operating margin | 9.5% | 4.4% |
| Net margin | 6.5% | 2.8% |
| Return on equity | 36.7% | 11.5% |
| Return on assets | 9.3% | 6.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 20.3% | 12.4% |
| FCF yield | -4.6% | 1.2% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.84 | 0.18 |
| Current ratio | 1.16 | 1.28 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.38 | 6.23 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 3 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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