Dollar General Corp (DG) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $84.70, with 4.88 million shares of worth about $413.05 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -1.56% during that period and on March 26, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.57%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 219.94M shares, out of which, 219.33M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.88% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 7.79%. Year-to-date (YTD), DG shares are showing a performance of 11.71% which decreased to -43.80% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $66.43 but also hit the highest price of $164.12 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Dollar General Corp shares is 3.79 million. The stock is currently trading 7.26% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 12.45% for SMA50 and it goes to -7.21% lower than SMA200.
Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) currently have 219.94M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 94.78% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $18.63B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.47. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 16.56, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.11 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.98 and has Quick Ratio of 0.21 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.36. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for DG, volatility over the week remained 3.33% while standing at 4.41% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -6.41% while it is estimated to increase by 10.02% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 5.55% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -5.08% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Telsey Advisory Group on March 06, 2025 offering a Market perform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $88 and $85 to it. Coverage by Deutsche Bank stated Dollar General Corp (DG) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on March 03, 2025, suggesting a price target of $80 for the stock. On December 06, 2024, BofA Securities Upgrade their recommendations, while on December 06, 2024, Telsey Advisory Group Reiterated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $88. Stock get an Outperform rating from Bernstein on October 22, 2024.
