Discount treasure-hunt retailer Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) will be reporting results tomorrow before market open. Here’s what to expect.
Last quarter Dollar Tree reported revenues of $7.31 billion, up 5.4% year on year, missing analyst expectations by 1.4%. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with optimistic earnings guidance for the next quarter but a miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Dollar Tree’s revenue to grow 12% year on year to $8.65 billion, improving on the 9% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.65 per share.
The analysts covering the company have had mixed opinions about the business heading into the earnings, with revenue estimates seeing three upward and four downward revisions over the last thirty days. The company missed Wall St’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Dollar Tree’s peers in the non-discretionary retail segment, some of them have already reported Q4 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Grocery Outlet delivered top-line growth of 6.3% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 0.9% and Target reported revenues up 1.7% year on year, exceeding estimates by 0.2%. Grocery Outlet traded up 6.8% on the results, and Target was up 5.4%.
Read our full analysis of Grocery Outlet’s results here and Target’s results here.
Investors in the non-discretionary retail segment have had steady hands going into the earnings, with the stocks up on average 1.1% over the last month. Dollar Tree is up 4.6% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $152.2, compared to share price of $149.36.
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