Dollar Tree (DLTR) Reports Q1: Everything You Need To Know Ahead Of Earnings

Discount treasure-hunt retailer Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

Dollar Tree met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $5.45 billion, up 9% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Dollar Tree’s revenue to grow 7.1% year on year, slowing from the 11.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Dollar Tree has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Dollar Tree’s peers in the non-discretionary retail segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Target delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.4%, and Grocery Outlet reported revenues up 3.6%, topping estimates by 1.4%. Target’s stock price was unchanged after the results, and Grocery Outlet’s price followed a similar reaction.

Read our full analysis of Target’s results here and Grocery Outlet’s results here.

Markets spent late 2025 hand-wringing over AI's threat to software and crypto, only for the US-Iran conflict to seize the narrative in 2026. While some of the non-discretionary retail stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.4% on average over the last month. Dollar Tree is down 4.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $122.26 (compared to the current share price of $93.63).

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