DG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Dollar General | NYSE:DG)

With more than 20,000 locations, Dollar General's banner is nearly ubiquitous across the rural United States. Dollar General serves as a convenient shopping destination for fill-in store trips, with its value proposition most relevant to consumers in small communities with a dearth of shopping options. The retailer operates a frugal store of about 7,500 square feet and primarily offers an assortment of branded and private-label consumable items (80% of net sales) such as paper and cleaning products, packaged and perishable food, and health and beauty items at low prices. Dollar General also offers a limited assortment of seasonal merchandise, home products, and apparel. The firm sells most items at a price point of $10 or less.

Dollar General trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol DG.

As of February 5, 2025, DG stock price climbed to $72.82 with 2,820,480 million shares trading.

DG has a beta of 0.35, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. DG has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

DG has a market cap of $16.01 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Dollar General reported $10 billion in Revenue and $.89 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $43 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.05.

In the last 3 years, DG traded as high as $262.21 and as low as $66.43.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that DG belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, SPY, IVV.

DG has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -44.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +23.7%. In the last 3 month period, DG fell short of the market, returning -10.5%, while SPY returned +6.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks DG has outperformed the stock market by returning +1.2%, while SPY returned +0.2%.

DG support price is $70.19 and resistance is $73.41 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that DG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.