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

Since its beginning in 1939, Dollar General has grown to become the largest dollar store operator in the United States, with more than 20,000 small-box discount stores across 48 states. The firm generated $40 billion in fiscal 2024 sales. The retailer maintains a heavy concentration of stores in rural and low-income markets underserved by big-box retailers. It's 11,000 stock-keeping units, including 2,000 priced at $1 or less, span consumables (82% of sales), seasonal items (10%), home products (5%), and apparel (3%). More than 20% of sales are derived from private label.

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

As of April 29, 2026, DG stock price declined to $113.88 with 976,228 million shares trading.

DG has a beta of 0.59, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. DG has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

DG has a market cap of $25.07 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Dollar General reported $11 billion in Revenue and $1.93 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $104 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.30.

In the last 3 years, DG traded as high as $221.50 and as low as $66.43.

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

DG has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +25.7% while the SPY ETF gained +30.1%. DG has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -21.1% and -4.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.3% and +2.2%, respectively.

DG support price is $113.23 and resistance is $118.41 (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.