Currently, there are 219.66M common shares owned by the public and among those 219.24M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -5.39% and -37.43% over the past three months. DG shares are trading -41.33% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -21.67% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $77.96 and touched a high of $168.07 over the same period. DG has an average intraday trading volume of 4.33 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -5.46%, -17.95%, and -37.65% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) shares accounts for 94.38% of the company’s 219.66M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $17.54B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.44. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 12.39, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.44. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.80% over the week and 2.17% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -22.69%, and 6.92% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of -1.24% over the next five years, compared to 4.82% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the DG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Citigroup stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on September 27, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $91-$73. Telsey Advisory Group coverage for the Dollar General Corp. (DG) stock in a research note released on August 30, 2024 offered a Market Perform rating with a price target of $103. Morgan Stanley was of a view on August 30, 2024 that the stock is Equal-Weight, while Gordon Haskett gave the stock Hold rating on August 30, 2024, issuing a price target of $90. Telsey Advisory Group on their part issued Outperform rating on May 31, 2024.
