Currently, there are 220.07M common shares owned by the public and among those 219.16M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 11.48% and 54.37% over the past three months. DG shares are trading 48.47% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -12.01% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $66.43 and touched a high of $141.24 over the same period. DG has an average intraday trading volume of 4.47 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 16.85%, 21.45%, and 34.09% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) shares accounts for 95.42% of the company’s 220.07M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $24.76B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.27. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 22.01, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $5.11. The company has a PEG of 3.53 and a Quick Ratio of 0.20 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.21. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 7.47% over the week and 4.00% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Dollar General Corp (DG) will achieve an EPS of 1.57 for the current quarter, 0.89 for the next quarter and 6.31 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.37 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.37. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 1.7 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -4.00%, and 11.41% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 6.23% over the next five years, compared to -5.08% over the past 5-year period.
Telsey Advisory Group coverage for the Dollar General Corp (DG) stock in a research note released on May 27, 2025 offered a Market Perform rating with a price target of $100. Gordon Haskett was of a view on April 09, 2025 that the stock is Reduce, while Melius gave the stock Buy rating on April 08, 2025, issuing a price target of $110. Citigroup on their part issued Neutral rating on April 07, 2025.
