Dollar Tree DLTR
equity
Price History
The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.
Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $93.63 and $133.89; nine in ten between $83.42 and $150.26.
Tested against this asset’s own history: across 364 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 68% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −61%, peaking Jul 2022 and bottoming Oct 2024 — still unrecovered after 50 months.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $37,900
- Value today
- $334,645
- Return
- +783.0%
- Months invested
- 379
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $59,035 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +466.9%.
Lump sum instead — $37,900 all at once in Mar 1995: $3,143,653 (+8194.6%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2022): $5,200 on $5,100 invested (+2.0%).
⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.
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About Dollar Tree
Dollar Tree, Inc., formerly known as Dollar Tree Stores, Inc., is an American multi-price-point chain of discount variety stores. Headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, it is a Fortune 500 company and operates 15,115 stores throughout the 48 contiguous U.S. states and Canada. Its stores are supported by a nationwide logistics network of 24 distribution centers. (Wikipedia)
It's a listed company categorised under consumer staples and consumer staples merchandise retail, with a market cap of about $21.0B.
It rates High Risk at 2.9/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.
What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and market / volatility (3.0/5).
Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.
Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.
Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.
Risk Profile
- Annualised volatility (3yr)3/535.8
- Max drawdown from ATH3/560.9
- Beta vs S&P 5003/50.98
- Avg daily $ volume1/5371.5m
- Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
- Debt / equity3/50.86
- Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
- 3yr EPS volatility5/5100
- Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
- Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
- Board independence %not yet researched
- Share structurenot yet researched
- Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
- Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate
Linked Assets
Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.
- Dollar General DG+54% (moderate)same category: consumer staples, consumer staples merchandise retail
- Target Corporation TGT+36% (weak)same category: consumer staples, consumer staples merchandise retail
- Walmart WMT+28% (weak)same category: consumer staples, consumer staples merchandise retail
- Costco COST+25% (weak)same category: consumer staples, consumer staples merchandise retail
- PepsiCo PEP+27% (weak)same category: consumer staples
- Sysco SYY+26% (weak)same category: consumer staples
- Coca-Cola Company (The) KO+26% (weak)same category: consumer staples
- Estée Lauder Companies (The) EL+24% (weak)same category: consumer staples