Dollar Tree beats quarterly sales estimates
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FILE PHOTO: A customer walks out of a Dollar Tree discount store in Austin, Texas, U.S., February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Khursheed/File Photo
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(Reuters) - Dollar Tree Inc (NASDAQ: DLTR) beat quarterly sales expectations on Thursday, as the discount retailer benefited from higher demand for affordable groceries and other essentials due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Net sales rose 9.4% to $6.28 billion in the second quarter ended Aug. 1, beating analysts' average estimate of $6.22 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Overall same-store sales rose 7.2% in the quarter. Larger Rival Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) reported an 18.8% rise earlier on Thursday.
(Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
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