Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.34M but it saw 3691994 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 20.63B USD, the company’s current market price of $93.81 came falling about -1.70 while comparing to the previous closing price of $95.43. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $147.87 and as low as $66.43. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $92.28 while lowest mark touched by it was $95.66.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Dollar General Corp (DG) gives us an average price of $90.56, while its current price level is -36.56% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 41.22% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $82.90 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $87.53. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.52% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.19%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 60.85 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Melius upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on April 08, 2025 while assigning a price target of $110. Citigroup issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $101.
Over the week, DG’s stock price is moving 4.98% up while it is 13.60% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 23.73% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -34.33%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-12, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.46 while estimate for next year EPS is 5.57. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $10.63B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $42.14B and seeing the company making $43.84B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $10.25B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Dollar General Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 219.94M with 0.32% of that held by the insiders while 96.18% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.91% and return on equity (ROE) at 15.89%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 18.34 while having a 15.28 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.24. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.78 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.51. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.47% on average.
