Everything behind the call on Dollarama Inc. 6 sections, ordered the way risk stacks up: survival first, quality and price in the middle, context last. The Beacon gives you the read. This is where you check the work.
The five reads
Global tape
No overseas listings — DLMAF trades on its home exchange only.
The bottom linestart hereAs of 2026-11-06
Chart pattern
Above both averages
The 50-day sits above the 200-day
50-day $134.38 · +16.5% 200-day $133.33 · +17.4%
Earnings
In 32 days
10 Dec 2026
cohort P(beat) 61% · n=142,816
Valuation
37.4× forward
Against consensus earnings
FCF yield 3.53%
Dividend
0.22%
A rounding error against cash — this is a capital-gains position
Risk flags
2 on watch
5 checks run, 2 clear
beta 0.30 · vol 41% ann. worst drawdown -26%
New to this? Every metric carries a plain-English read beside it, and an ⓘ next to a label opens the definition. Anything unfamiliar is also defined at the foot of the page under Glossary.
OTC Markets OTCPK · USDDiscount Stores
$156.530.00 · 0.00%CLOSED · vol 9
52-week range↑ 51% off low · ↓ 2.7% off high
$103.63now $156.53$160.86
Quote Nov 6, 2026 · 4:00 PM ET Tape 2026-11-06 Factors 2026-11-06
01
Survival & solvency
and 2 of 5 forensic checks clear.
↳ Plain EnglishBefore anything else: can this company pay its bills? These blocks check the balance sheet, whether your slice of ownership is being diluted, and whether the accounting looks honest.
Piotroski F-score
F 5/9WATCH
Piotroski F-score 5 of 9. Nine pass/fail tests covering profitability, leverage and operating efficiency; seven or more is strong.
Balance sheetNov 8, 2026
Solvency and liquidity ratios
Current ratioshort-term assets against short-term bills1.13×healthy >2
Debt / equityborrowings against shareholder capital3.71
Net debtborrowings in excess of cash on hand$5.06B
Your ownership stake
Share-count growth vs peersLOW DILUTION
16th pctile
Where this name's share-count growth ranks among peers. Lower is less dilutive.
Accounting forensicsSEC filings
Red-flag x-rayGRADE B
75 / 100
0 critical · 2 watch · 2 clear of 4 scored tests
2 of 5 checks clear
Red-flag x-ray · every check, passes included
CheckStatusValueWhat it looks for
Bankruptcy distressCLEARZ 5.30Altman-Z in the Safe · fundamentals
Earnings manipulationCLEARM -2.91M-score in range · fundamentals
Profitability qualityWATCHF 5/9Piotroski F-score 5 of 9 · fundamentals
Filing forensicsNAn/aFiling forensics not available · forensic
5 checks, 2 clear and 2 watch. The passes are shown because a score built from five checks means something different from one built from three.
02Refreshed · Nov 8, 2026GOOD · 73/100
Business quality
18% net margin, 90% return on equity, +13% revenue growth, and capital earning 21% against a 7% cost.
↳ Plain EnglishMargins tell you how much of each sales dollar the company keeps. Return on capital tells you whether reinvesting that money creates value. Both are read against what the filings support, not against a target.
Quality score
73 / 100GOOD
Profitability · net margin 18%
Growth · revenue +13% YoY
Balance strength · debt/equity 3.71
Profitability, growth and balance strength scored separately, then blended.
ProfitabilityRefreshed · Nov 8, 2026
Net marginOF EVERY SALES DOLLAR
18.0%
The share of revenue that survives every cost and becomes profit.
Gross marginPRICING POWER
45.0%
What is left of a sales dollar before overhead — the clearest read on pricing power.
Operating marginAFTER RUNNING COSTS
24.1%
What survives the cost of running the whole business.
Return on equityPER $1 OF EQUITY
89.9%
Annual return on each dollar of shareholder equity.
ROIC − WACC spreadCREATES VALUE
14.3pp
Earns 21% on invested capital that costs about 7%. A positive spread means every retained dollar compounds rather than leaks.
Incremental ROIC (3y)ON NEW CAPITAL
18.6%
The return on capital put to work over the last three years — a sharper read than the trailing average, because it prices the newest decisions.
Growth & relative strength
Trailing return by period
1 month
+18.2%
3 months
+13.7%
6 months
+22.5%
Year to date
+4.6%
1 year
+20.9%
Revenue growth (YoY)GROWING
+13.1%
Revenue against the same period a year ago.
EPS growth (YoY)MARGINS WIDENING
+13.7%
Earnings per share against a year ago. Running ahead of revenue means margins are widening.
12-1 momentumEX LAST MONTH
+2.4%
Return over the last year excluding the most recent month — the standard momentum factor, which drops the short-term reversal.
Relative-strength rankTOP 11%
89 / 100
Where this name's 3-month return against the S&P 500 ranks across the market — a quarter's standing, not the year's.
Its own record against consensus. 1 print is a small sample, which is why the cohort rate above carries the probability.
n=1 measured prints
Typical earnings moveData unavailableRealized move magnitudes are not published for this name yet — needs ≥8 measured prints · 1 on file.
Reaction: beat vs missData unavailableThe beat-versus-miss reaction gap is not computed for this name — undetermined — needs ≥12 measured beats.
Consensus biasVALIDATED
Persistent
insufficient surprise history
As of · Sep 16, 2026
Next reportIN 32 DAYS
10 Dec 2026
Reports bmo · consensus EPS $1.23 · revenue 2.0 B
Dividends & income
Dividend yieldforward annual
0.22%
The cash return the payment alone provides at today's price.
Cash coveragefree cash flow
>2x
Whether the payment is funded out of the cash the business generates.
Inventory ledger
Data unavailableNo inventory detail is tagged in this company's filings. The ledger needs the XBRL inventory components, which a business without physical goods does not report.
Segments & geography
Data unavailableRevenue by segment and region is not on file for this name, so product and geographic concentration are not shown.
Pattern reliability · platform-wide cohortSnapshot · Nov 6, 2026
Uptrend · leans bullish
HorizonHigherMedianObservations
10d47%-0.1%1,163,542
21d47%-0.4%549,860
63d47%-0.8%174,335
slope +0.25 over 40 bars
Dragonfly doji · leans bullish
HorizonHigherMedianObservations
10d35%0.0%529,694
21d39%0.0%247,920
63d44%0.0%76,794
long lower shadow, open=close near high
Harami cross
HorizonHigherMedianObservations
10d45%0.0%242,342
21d46%0.0%113,940
63d47%-0.3%35,818
doji inside prior body
Rising wedge · leans bearish
HorizonHigherMedianObservations
10d47%0.0%233,749
21d48%0.0%110,517
63d50%0.0%35,057
rising & converging — bearish
Cup and handle · leans bullish
HorizonHigherMedianObservations
10d46%-0.3%717,973
21d46%-0.6%340,024
63d47%-1.3%107,220
U-base + small handle pullback
Rsi overbought · leans bearish
HorizonHigherMedianObservations
10d40%0.0%271,855
21d42%0.0%127,927
63d45%0.0%40,293
RSI 75 ≥ 70
0337.4× FORWARD
Price & timing
Price $156.53, 37.4× forward earnings, RSI 75.
↳ Plain EnglishA multiple is what the market charges for a dollar of this company's earnings, cash or revenue; the trend and the options tape say what the price is doing around it. Together they are the timing picture, not the quality one.
Trend
Above 50 & 2003 OF 3 AVERAGES
50-day $134.38 · 200-day $133.33. Price above both is the structural definition of an uptrend.
The setup right now
Price · 504 sessions2024-11-04 → 2026-11-06
price50-day200-day
How to read this
Up 0.00% on the session.
Follow the solid line: each point is a session close. Compare it to the 50-day average — while price stays above it the short-term trend is up, and a drop below is the first structural warning.
Market cap$42.01B
Day range$156.53 – $156.53
Above 52-week low+51%
Realized volatility41% ann.
Worst drawdown-26.0%
Momentum (RSI-14)OVERBOUGHT
75
030 oversold70 hot100
Where momentum sits on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 is overbought, below 30 oversold; the middle says the move has room either way.
Typical day (ATR-14)±1.4%
$2.15
The average true range — how far this stock moves on an ordinary day. It sets the scale a stop has to clear.
MACDABOVE SIGNAL
+0.77
The short-term trend against its own signal line. The sign is the read; the size is not a target.
Bollinger position86% OF RANGE
Upper band
Where price sits inside its own volatility band. The edges are where a move is stretched, not where it reverses.
20-day VWAPPRICE ABOVE
$144.90
The volume-weighted average of the last month. Price above it means recent buyers are, on average, in profit.
Chandelier exitLONG INTACT
$150.98
A volatility-based trailing stop, set a few average ranges below the recent high.
10 Dec 2026 · in 32 daysNext earningsThe next scheduled catalyst. The forward guide usually moves the tape more than the printed number.
2026-11-10 · in 2 daysInflation (CPI)A scheduled macro release. It moves this stock independently of anything the company does.
Setup & oddsNightly
Pullback riskoverstretch read
High1.32× segment rate · n=6,842
Historically, large names in this tape state saw a ≥10% pullback within 63 trading days in 88% of cases (n=6,842).
Overstretchvs the 20-day mean
1.4σ
How many standard deviations price sits from its 20-day mean. Beyond 2σ is genuinely stretched; inside it is ordinary.
Bottom zoneif it breaks down
$143 – $1451 support
Where prior demand appeared: Pivot low at $143.83.
Slide scorefalling-knife check
0 / 100Neutral
A composite of consecutive down days, gap risk and volume expansion. Low means any decline is orderly.
Valuation
Earnings yield vs cashBELOW CASH
-2.45pp
Cash pays more than the earnings yield today, so what you are buying is future growth rather than a current return.
Net cash per shareNET DEBT
$-18.55
Cash less every borrowing, per share. It is the part of the price that is not a claim on future profits.
Multiples
Forward P/Eearnings expected over the next 12 months37.4×
Trailing P/Eearnings already reported43.6×
Price / salesprice against revenue, before any of it becomes profit5.8×
Price / bookprice against the accounting value of the assets28.9×
EV / EBITDAthe multiple an acquirer would pay19.4×
EV / free cash flowenterprise value against the cash the business throws off31.8×
FCF yieldfree cash flow per dollar of market value3.53%
5 of the 7 priced multiples above sit in the richer half of its band. Each priced multiple is read against this stock's own history where a five-year range is on file, so the question is whether today is dear for this name rather than for the market. The multiples are computed separately from the quote above and are not re-priced as it moves, so they can lag it.
Price horizon & timingNov 6, 2026
Entryzone of pivot low
$144.90Approach
Where the composer's entry sits, on its own stated basis.
TargetBb upper + 52-week high + round
$160.52$160–$161
A zone, not a price. It is where the composer expects supply, not a forecast.
Stop2× ATR below entry
$140.61risk $4.30/sh
The level that says the setup is wrong, on the basis named beside it.
Risk / rewardtarget vs stop
3.63:1
Reward against risk on the composer's own levels.
Measure from a price$
To the 50-day
-14.2%
short-term trend line · $134.38
To the 200-day
-14.8%
primary trend line · $133.33
To the composer's target
+2.5%
Bb upper + 52-week high + round · set Nov 6, 2026 · $160.52
To the composer's stop
-10.2%
2× ATR below entry · set Nov 6, 2026 · $140.61
To the 52-week high
+2.8%
highest print of the past year · $160.86
To the 52-week low
-33.8%
lowest print of the past year · $103.63
A typical day (ATR)
$154.38 – $158.68
±$2.15 average true range
Type any price to re-measure every distance from it. Each row is a level this page already states somewhere else, so nothing here is a new number — and none of it is a recommendation to trade at that price.
Data unavailableThis name has no listed options chain, so there is no dealer gamma to map. Regime, flip level, walls and the implied move all need a chain to exist.
Options tape
Data unavailableNo options chain is connected for this ticker. Max pain, the put/call ratio, the implied move and the open-interest ladder all need the chain feed.
0413F quarterly · Form 4 dailyNET SIGNAL +2
Ownership & flow
Institutions hold 47%.
↳ Plain EnglishWho is buying and selling, and what they had to disclose. Institutions file 13F 45 days after quarter end, executives file Form 4 within two days, and Congress discloses under the STOCK Act with a 30–45 day legal lag. Every one of those is a look backwards.
Net signal
+2BALANCED · 30d
Earnings +2
1 bull / 0 bear factors. The points sum to the net beside the label; nothing here is weighted after the fact.
The QTick signalNightly
Earnings4 QUARTERS · TIMING
+2
latest EPS beat by 2%
Signal
1 bull / 0 bear factors
Independent factors scored and netted to +2 over 30d, a balanced reading. 1 of 9 factors carried a direction; the others scored zero and do not vote. The signal describes where the data leans, not what to do about it.
Cross-category read
Data unavailableFewer independent evidence families are ready than the engine's minimum, so there is nothing to check for agreement. A cross-category read over two categories is not a read.
Wall Street
Data unavailableNo sell-side firm publishes research on this name. There is no consensus rating, no price target and no estimate revisions to weigh — for a company this size that is the norm rather than a gap in our data.
Who owns it13F quarterly · Form 4 daily
Institutional ownershipRETAIL-HEAVY
47.4%
The share held by 13F filers. It describes last quarter's positioning, not today's — filings land up to 45 days after quarter end.
Insider ownershipOFFICERS & DIRECTORS
2.1%
The share held by the people running the company.
Free float99% OF SHARES
268.61M
Shares actually available to trade, excluding insider and restricted holdings.
Dollar volume (ADV)61st PCTILE
$6.42M/day
Average dollars traded per day, and where that ranks cross-sectionally. Thin liquidity is a cost you pay on the way out, not just on the way in.
Borrow feeData unavailableWe do not license securities-lending data, so the annualized cost of borrowing shares to short is not something we can show. Short interest and days-to-cover above are the closest read we can source.
The story · news & sentimentRolling window
Why it moved todayNONE
0.00%
DLMAF was little changed +0.00% since the last close — no notable catalyst, and the move itself was modest.
Matched · Nov 6, 2026
Congress
Data unavailableNo congressional trades in this name have been disclosed under the STOCK Act. Lawmakers' disclosed trades cluster heavily in large caps, so an empty list is the usual state.
051 graded callsHIGH VOLATILITY
Risk & track record
Beta 0.30, 41% annual volatility, a -26% worst drawdown, and 4 of 8 risk surfaces clear.
↳ Plain EnglishWhat owning it does to a portfolio, what the model votes against, and how often our own calls have been right. Every call is graded when it resolves, and the ones still open stay visible.
A very bad day (EVT)
−8.2%1-IN-200 DAY
Fitted to the tail of the return distribution rather than assuming a bell curve. Size the position so a day like this is survivable.
What it does to a portfolio5-year window
Beyond the tail (ES)1-IN-1,000 DAY
−21.7%
The average loss on a 1-in-1,000 day or worse — deeper in the tail than the 1-in-200 figure above and further than the measured history reaches, so it reads as the scale of a crash, not a forecast of one.
Tail understatementHEAVY TAIL
1.6×
A normal-curve estimate understates this name's worst days by about 1.6×, so volatility alone is the wrong risk measure for it.
Max drawdownWORST FALL
-26.0%
The deepest peak-to-trough fall in the measured window. Only hold a position you can watch do this.
Beta (vs the market)LOW FIT
0.30
The market explains about 2.0% of its daily moves, so this beta says little about how it tracks the index — most of its movement is its own.
3-year beta 0.23
Annualized volatilityELEVATED
41%
How far it swings over a year, from its own realized returns.
Tactical phaseNIGHTLY READ
Neutral
Selling pressure0
Buying pressure48
Overheat46
State: neutral — No dominant short-horizon pressure in the tape.
0-100 · high = active · lit = the engine's own phase, cohort-banded
What votes against
Data unavailableNo factor in the model currently votes against this name. That is a statement about the model's inputs today, not a claim that nothing could go wrong.
Failure modes · by company type
Data unavailableFailure modes are routed per company type, and only the bank-run and crypto-treasury rulebooks are validated so far. This name routes as growth, so there is no cohort-specific checklist to run. A generic list would read as analysis without being any.
The risk case · why not to buy8 surfaces · nightly
Suggested position capmax defensible size
3.3%tail cap binds
max defensible size 3.3% - tail binds
Avoid score6-month distress
1.6%0.2× its cohort · mid-volume names
Observational 6-month large-drawdown risk ranking — not a forecast, not alpha. Historical distress rate for this mid-volume names segment: 8.7%. This name reads 0.2× that base rate.
LowDistress screenThe distress model did not score this name in the latest run, so this surface is unmeasured rather than clear.Not scored
MedPosition size, not conviction, is the binding constrainthalf-Kelly 44.3% · tail cap 3.3% · category cap 90.1%. The tail cap binds, so 3.4% is the number (n=25,762). We show which one binds rather than the friendliest.Sizing
LowLottery-ticket behaviourIts best 21-day return sits at 9.8% against a 11.0% cohort 90th-percentile threshold — below the line where forward returns have historically turned negative.Behaviour
LowPost-earnings driftDrift odds at full strength (+2.44% / 63-day spread reference from measured post-earnings drift).Timing
LowDividend riskNot scored for this name.Not scored
LowRestatement historyFiling history is not deep enough to check for restatements.Not scored
LowCrowded shortNot in a warn state: the crowded-short model only publishes when short interest and thin liquidity coincide, and neither condition is met here.Not scored
Signal
4 of 8 surfaces clear.
8 surfaces checked, 4 clear. The binding constraint is position size — the tail cap is the one that binds. Each row states which surface it is and what it measured; a surface that could not be scored says so rather than counting as clear.
Who should skip it
Skip it if any of these is you
You want income
A 0.22% yield is a rounding error against cash. This is a capital-gains position.
You'd be buying into earnings
A report lands in 32 days.
Our track record1 resolved
Track recordBUILDING IN THE OPEN
10 logged
10 calls logged on this name, 1 resolved so far. Calls are logged the moment they are made, so the open ones are public before anyone knows how they turn out, and a hit-rate is not published until enough of them resolve.
1 resolved · 9 open
0610-K disclosed linksDISCOUNT STORES
The wider context
5 mapped peers, 3 connections.
↳ Plain EnglishCompanies do not trade alone. This is the peer set, the supply chain that has to deliver, and the macro variables that move the stock regardless of company news.
Rate sensitivity
-6.9% per +1ppMEASURED
Measured against the 10-year yield: a one-point move in the yield has come with about a 6.9% move here, independent of company news.
Versus peersLatest session
Peer set · 5 names
SymbolRelationshipPriceSession
WMTCustomer$125.52-1.72%
COSTPeer$1,053.56-1.13%
TGTPeer$158.41+0.29%
DLMAYPeer$16.000.00%
DGPeer$133.75-3.08%
The mapped peer set and how each traded in the latest session. A peer moving with this name says the move is the sector's; one moving against it says the move is this company's.
That is the definition of a stock that has already worked, and it says nothing about the next window. What it does tell you is what a drawdown would be measured against.
Historical retrospective. Context, not a forecast.
Macro driversRolling window
Next macro catalystIN 2 DAYS
Inflation (CPI)
2026-11-10. A scheduled release that moves this stock independently of anything the company does.
Events · what moves this stockNov 4, 2026
Retail sales is due in 9 days.
Retail salesUsually helps when shoppers spend more than expected
Grocery and household goods are part of the same total.
Typical for the Consumer Defensive sector
On the day +0.2% · A week later +0.6% · Two weeks later +0.6% · Rose on 16 of 40 report days
Across the last 40 Retail sales reports since Jun 15, 2023, DLMAF moved +0.2% on average on the day and was 0.6% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved 0.0% on those days.
Grocery and household spending barely changes with the job market.
Typical for the Consumer Defensive sector
On the day +0.2% · A week later +0.8% · Two weeks later +1.3% · Rose on 74 of 172 report days
Across the last 172 Initial jobless claims reports since Jun 8, 2023, DLMAF moved +0.2% on average on the day and was 1.3% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved 0.0% on those days.
On the day 0.0% · A week later +0.1% · Two weeks later +0.7% · Rose on 16 of 40 report days
Across the last 40 Housing starts reports since Jun 20, 2023, DLMAF moved 0.0% on average on the day and was 0.7% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved 0.0% on those days.
On the day +0.2% · A week later +0.6% · Two weeks later +0.6% · Rose on 16 of 40 report days
Across the last 40 Industrial production reports since Jun 15, 2023, DLMAF moved +0.2% on average on the day and was 0.6% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved 0.0% on those days.
Food and household brands pass higher costs on to shoppers over time; little reaction on the day.
Typical for the Consumer Defensive sector
On the day +0.3% · A week later +1.4% · Two weeks later +1.5% · Rose on 23 of 40 report days
Across the last 40 Producer prices (PPI) reports since Jun 12, 2023, DLMAF moved +0.3% on average on the day and was 1.5% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved +0.2% on those days.
On the day +0.1% · A week later -0.1% · Two weeks later -0.1% · Rose on 18 of 39 report days
Across the last 39 Consumer sentiment (UMich) reports since Jun 26, 2023, DLMAF moved +0.1% on average on the day and was 0.1% lower two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved 0.0% on those days.
Food and household brands pass higher costs on to shoppers over time; little reaction on the day.
Typical for the Consumer Defensive sector
On the day 0.0% · A week later +0.9% · Two weeks later +1.2% · Rose on 17 of 39 report days
Across the last 39 Core PCE (the Fed's gauge) reports since Jun 28, 2023, DLMAF moved 0.0% on average on the day and was 1.2% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved +0.2% on those days.
Food and household brands pass higher costs on to shoppers over time; little reaction on the day.
Typical for the Consumer Defensive sector
On the day +0.3% · A week later +1.3% · Two weeks later +1.3% · Rose on 22 of 39 report days
Across the last 39 Core inflation (core CPI) reports since Jun 12, 2023, DLMAF moved +0.3% on average on the day and was 1.3% higher two weeks later. The S&P 500 moved +0.2% on those days.
Customer momentum
Data unavailableCustomer momentum needs listed customers that disclose a revenue dependence on this company, and none is on file. The connections below are a different map: competitors and partners, most of them curated rather than filed.
Connections3 links · none confirmed
Direct connections · 3 edges
CompanyRelationSessionProvenance
ADM · Suppliersupplier-0.71%Rumored · manual
WMT · Customercustomer-1.72%Rumored · manual
PG · Competitorcompetitor-1.02%Rumored · manual
0 of 3 edges are named in a filing; the rest come from reporting we have not matched to one yet, and are labelled as such.