NYSE:DG - Dollar General Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Dollar General announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 3rd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, January 8th will be given a dividend of $0.29 per share on Tuesday, January 22nd. This represents a $1.16 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, January 7th. View Dollar General's Dividend History.

Dollar General announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Thursday, March 15th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, December, 4th. The company reported $1.26 EPS for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.26. The firm earned $6.42 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.38 billion. Dollar General had a return on equity of 24.03% and a net margin of 7.24%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 8.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.93 earnings per share. View Dollar General's Earnings History.

Dollar General is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 21st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Dollar General.

Dollar General issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, December, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.85-6.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $6.11. The company issued revenue guidance of +9% to ~$25.58 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $25.57 billion.Dollar General also updated its FY 2018 guidance to EPS.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Dollar General's shares. Their predictions range from $67.00 to $129.00. On average, they expect Dollar General's share price to reach $111.2059 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Dollar General.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Dollar General in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings, 13 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Dollar General.

News stories about DG stock have been trending very positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Dollar General earned a media sentiment score of 3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

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Dollar General's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Bank of Montreal Can (0.72%), Cornerstone Investment Partners LLC (0.25%), Hexavest Inc. (0.19%), Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC (0.18%), Fenimore Asset Management Inc. (0.14%) and BTIM Corp. (0.11%). Company insiders that own Dollar General stock include Anita C Elliott, Michael J Kindy, Robert D Ravener and Timothy I Mcguire. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Dollar General.

DG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Gillespie Robinson & Grimm Inc., Meeder Asset Management Inc., Professional Advisory Services Inc., BTIM Corp., DNB Asset Management AS, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC and Nexus Investment Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Dollar General company stock in the last year include Anita C Elliott, Michael J Kindy and Robert D Ravener. View Insider Buying and Selling for Dollar General.

DG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cornerstone Investment Partners LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Park National Corp OH, Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc., Hexavest Inc., Hotaling Investment Management LLC and Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Dollar General.

Shares of DG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of DG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $112.90.

Dollar General has a market capitalization of $29.68 billion and generates $23.47 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.54 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.49 on an earnings per share basis. Dollar General employs 129,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Dollar General is http://www.dollargeneral.com.

Dollar General's mailing address is 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN, 37072. The company can be reached via phone at 615-855-4000.