Dollar General (NYSE:DG) Updates FY26 Earnings Guidance

Dollar General (NYSE:DG) updated its FY26 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $5.10-5.80 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.83. The company issued revenue guidance of +3.4-4.4% yr/yr to ~$42.0-42.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $42.18 billion. Dollar General also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 5.100-5.800 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms have commented on DG. Barclays decreased their price target on shares of Dollar General from $102.00 to $100.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. Truist Financial decreased their target price on shares of Dollar General from $94.00 to $83.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, December 6th. Jefferies Financial Group decreased their target price on shares of Dollar General from $110.00 to $90.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, November 15th. BMO Capital Markets lifted their target price on shares of Dollar General from $80.00 to $84.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research note on Friday, December 6th. Finally, Bank of America decreased their target price on shares of Dollar General from $95.00 to $90.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have given a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $92.26.

Dollar General Stock Performance

DG stock opened at $79.15 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $17.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.04, a PEG ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 0.44. The company has a quick ratio of 0.15, a current ratio of 1.15 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. Dollar General has a twelve month low of $66.43 and a twelve month high of $164.12. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $73.69 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $78.39.

Dollar General (NYSE:DG) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 13th. The company reported $1.68 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.51 by $0.17. Dollar General had a return on equity of 18.85% and a net margin of 3.33%. The firm had revenue of $10.30 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $10.26 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.83 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.5% on a year-over-year basis. Analysts predict that Dollar General will post 5.75 earnings per share for the current year.

Dollar General Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 22nd. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 8th will be given a dividend of $0.59 per share. This represents a $2.36 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.98%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, April 8th. Dollar General’s payout ratio is currently 46.18%.

Insider Activity at Dollar General

In other Dollar General news, Director Michael M. Calbert sold 6,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $75.27, for a total value of $451,620.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 120,322 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $9,056,636.94. This trade represents a 4.75 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. 0.49% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

About Dollar General

Dollar General Corporation, a discount retailer, provides various merchandise products in the southern, southwestern, midwestern, and eastern United States. It offers consumable products, including paper and cleaning products, such as paper towels, bath tissues, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, disinfectants, and laundry products; packaged food comprising cereals, pasta, canned soups, fruits and vegetables, condiments, spices, sugar, and flour; and perishables that include milk, eggs, bread, refrigerated and frozen food, beer, and wine.