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

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

Dollar General announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 6th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, January 7th will be given a dividend of $0.32 per share on Tuesday, January 21st. This represents a $1.28 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.83%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, January 6th. View Dollar General's Dividend History.

Dollar General declared that its board has approved a share buyback program on Thursday, March 15th 2018, which permits the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, December, 5th. The company reported $1.42 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.38 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $6.99 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.89 billion. Dollar General had a return on equity of 25.53% and a net margin of 6.09%. The business's revenue was up 8.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.26 earnings per share. View Dollar General's Earnings History.

Dollar General is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 12th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Dollar General.

Dollar General updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, December, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of $6.55-6.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $6.61.

22 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Dollar General's stock. Their forecasts range from $95.00 to $184.00. On average, they anticipate Dollar General's share price to reach $162.90 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 5.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Dollar General.

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Dollar General in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Dollar General.

Media headlines about DG stock have been trending extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Dollar General earned a media sentiment score of -4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Dollar General.

Dollar General saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,770,000 shares, an increase of 10.2% from the December 15th total of 3,420,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,880,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Dollar General's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Dollar General include Target (TGT), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Big Lots (BIG), Tuesday Morning (TUES) and Fred's (FRED).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Dollar General investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walmart (WMT), Visa (V), Home Depot (HD), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), AT&T (T) and Nike (NKE).

Dollar General's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt (0.79%), SPF Beheer BV (0.23%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.21%), Bristol John W & Co. Inc. NY (0.20%), Hexavest Inc. (0.15%) and PGGM Investments (0.13%). Company insiders that own Dollar General stock include Anita C Elliott, Michael J Kindy, Patricia Filikrushel, Rhonda Taylor, 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 PGGM Investments, Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt, Hexavest Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Fenimore Asset Management Inc., Scout Investments Inc., Manning & Napier Group LLC and Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Dollar General company stock in the last year include Rhonda Taylor and Robert D Ravener. View Insider Buying and Selling for Dollar General.

DG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SPF Beheer BV, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Tandem Investment Advisors Inc., Rothschild Investment Corp IL, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp, IFP Advisors Inc and Park National Corp OH. Company insiders that have bought Dollar General stock in the last two years include Patricia Filikrushel and Timothy I Mcguire. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of DG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $155.14.

Dollar General has a market capitalization of $39.50 billion and generates $25.63 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.59 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.97 on an earnings per share basis. Dollar General employs 135,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Dollar General.

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.