Currently, there are 219.94M common shares owned by the public and among those 219.07M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.11% and 15.62% over the past three months. DG shares are trading 15.67% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -45.03% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $66.43 and touched a high of $159.52 over the same period. DG has an average intraday trading volume of 4.25 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 3.22%, 11.37%, and -2.15% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) shares accounts for 94.81% of the company’s 219.94M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $19.29B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.22. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 17.15, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $5.11. The company has a PEG of 3.09 and a Quick Ratio of 0.21 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.36. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.81% over the week and 4.35% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -5.86%, and 10.45% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 5.55% over the next five years, compared to -5.08% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the DG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Melius stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on April 08, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $110. Citigroup coverage for the Dollar General Corp (DG) stock in a research note released on April 07, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $101. Telsey Advisory Group was of a view on March 06, 2025 that the stock is Market Perform, while Deutsche Bank gave the stock Hold rating on March 03, 2025, issuing a price target of $80. BofA Securities on their part issued Buy rating on December 06, 2024.
