18-Sep-2024
Dollar General: Hold Rating with Cautious Optimism Amidst Market Challenges
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Dollar General Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2024 Results
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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, tobacco, 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 September 18, 2024, DG stock price climbed to $86.86 with 3,197,841 million shares trading.
DG has a beta of 0.48, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. DG has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.
DG has a market cap of $19.10 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Dollar General reported $10 billion in Revenue and $1.70 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-160 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.09.
In the last 3 years, DG stock traded as high as $262.21 and as low as $77.96.
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 -21.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +27.7%. In the last 3 month period, DG fell short of the market, returning -30.9%, while SPY returned +2.7%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks DG has outperformed the stock market by returning +7.1%, while SPY returned +1.9%.
DG support price is $84.33 and resistance is $87.69 (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 stock will trade within this expected range on the day.