Better Buy Now: A 50/50 Split of Costco and Walmart or Dollar General and Dollar Tree?

After reaching multi-year lows in 2024, Dollar General (DG 0.18%) and Dollar Tree (DLTR 1.15%) are staging epic recoveries in 2025.Year to date (YTD) at the time of this writing, Dollar General has surged a staggering 49.5% and Dollar Tree is up 25.2%, compared to a mere 2.1% gain in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC).Even with those gains, both stocks have drastically underperformed the S&P 500 and larger retailers like Walmart (WMT -1.68%) and Costco Wholesale (COST -1.12%) over the last few years.Here's what' ...