Dollar General - DG Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Dollar General in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 hold ratings, 9 buy ratings and 2 strong buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" DG shares.
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15 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Dollar General's shares. Their DG share price forecasts range from $210.00 to $296.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $263.93 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% from the stock's current price.
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Dollar General's stock was trading at $246.25 at the start of the year. Since then, DG stock has decreased by 5.4% and is now trading at $232.89.
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Dollar General saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,200,000 shares, a drop of 8.3% from the December 31st total of 3,490,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,010,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.6 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 16th 2023.
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Dollar General Co. (NYSE:DG) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, December, 1st. The company reported $2.33 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.55 by $0.22. The company had revenue of $9.46 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.43 billion. Dollar General had a net margin of 6.49% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 38.43%.

Dollar General declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 30th. Investors of record on Tuesday, January 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.55 per share on Tuesday, January 17th. This represents a $2.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 30th.
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Dollar General (NYSE:DG) pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.93%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 6 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 21.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, DG will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.12% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Dollar General announced that its board has authorized a stock repurchase program on Thursday, December 2nd 2021, which authorizes the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 3.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Dollar General updated its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Saturday, December, 31st. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.15-$3.30 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.67. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

2,238 employees have rated Dollar General Chief Executive Officer Todd Vasos on Glassdoor.com. Todd Vasos has an approval rating of 48% among the company's employees. This puts Todd Vasos in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Dollar General trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DG."

Dollar General's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Coho Partners Ltd. (0.48%), AKO Capital LLP (0.42%), Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (0.40%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.34%), Natixis Advisors L.P. (0.22%) and New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.19%). Insiders that own company stock include Anita C Elliott, Antonio Zuazo, Carman R Wenkoff, Emily C Taylor, John W Garratt, Michael J Kindy, Patricia Filikrushel, Rhonda Taylor, Steven G Sunderland, Todd J Vasos and Warren F Bryant.
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One share of DG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $232.89.

Dollar General (NYSE:DG) has a market capitalization of $52.07 billion and generates $34.22 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $2.40 billion in net income (profit) each year or $10.29 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 163,000 workers across the globe.

Dollar General's mailing address is 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN, 37072. The official website for the company is www.dollargeneral.com. The company can be reached via phone at (615) 855-4000 or via fax at 615-386-9936.