Dollar Tree, Inc.
DLTRHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYDollar Tree, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Consumer Products.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
70
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $6.9B disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 33d
- 520 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 5 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 5 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 5 activism filings
- Latest activism 2.5y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 188d stale
- 5 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 520 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $22.5B
- 10-Q 188d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
No disclosed M&A capital in the 10-year window.
This issuer has not disclosed material acquisition spend or count in the last ten fiscal years.
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Bolt On25%
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
- Geographic Expansion25%
- Tuck In25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
- tuck_in
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Historically, our acquisition strategy has been to target companies that have a similar single price point concept that have shown success in operations or companies that provide a strategic advantage.”
“On July 6, 2015, we completed our acquisition of Family Dollar which allowed us to create a diversified company with complementary business models.”
“Since 1995, we have added a total of 695 stores through several mergers and acquisitions, excluding our acquisition of Family Dollar.”
“Significant progress has been made in the integration of Family Dollar and Dollar Tree, but the process is not yet complete.”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Consumer Products
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $145.2B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $102.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +42%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
DLTR trades at a -1.8-turn discount to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.8×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.7× | 2.3× | 2.0× | $164.7B | $24.6B | |
Dollar Tree, Inc.DLTR | 10.4× | 1.2× | 0.8× | $19.4B | N/A |
| 8.7× | 1.3× | -0.1× | $10B | $5.5B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)342026-03-16
- 10-Q (quarterly)922025-12-03
- 8-K (event)5202026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A532026-05-01
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)52023-12-21
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2023-12-215 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.