Dollar General Corp (DG) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $90.20, with 4.91 million shares of worth about $443.2 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 6.66% during that period and on April 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.97%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 219.94M shares, out of which, 219.07M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 6.49% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 23.70%. Year-to-date (YTD), DG shares are showing a performance of 18.97% which decreased to -42.68% 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 3.89 million. The stock is currently trading 9.20% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 16.91% for SMA50 and it goes to -0.14% lower than SMA200.
Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) currently have 219.94M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 94.81% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $19.84B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.29. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 17.64, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.11 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.18 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 3.34% while standing at 4.14% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -6.61% while it is estimated to increase by 10.32% 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.
