Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG) has a beta value of 0.28 and has seen 1.75 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $24.37B, closed the recent trade at $110.73 per share which meant it lost -$4.22 on the day or -3.67%% during that session. The DG stock price is -22.33% off its 52-week high price of $135.46 and 40.01% above the 52-week low of $66.43. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 3.04 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 4.36 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Dollar General Corp (DG) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.45. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 7 out of 24 have rated it as a Hold, with 17 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.
Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG) trade information
Sporting -3.67%% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the DG stock price touched $110.73 or saw a rise of 3.73%. Year-to-date, Dollar General Corp shares have moved -13.15%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -2.55%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG) have changed 10.03%. Short interest in the company has seen 7.85 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.19.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $85, which means that the shares’ value could drop -30.27% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $80.0 while the price target rests at a high of $120.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -8.37% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 27.75% from the levels at last check today..
Dollar General Corp (DG) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 45.81% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -5.08% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -2.93% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 6.78%.
DG Dividends
Dollar General Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Jun-03 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 2.36 at a share yield of 2.13%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 1.35%.
Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG)’s Major holders
The top two institutional holders are CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS with over 25.22 million shares worth more than $3.33 billion. As of 2024-06-30, CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS held 11.4665% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 24.94 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $3.3 billion and represent 11.3394% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.16% shares in the company for having 6.96 shares of worth $777.71 million while later fund manager owns 6.11 shares of worth $683.04 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.78% of company’s outstanding stock.
