Dollar General (NYSE:DG) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Dollar General (NYSE:DG) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 5.100-5.800 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 5.850. The company issued revenue guidance of $42.0 billion-$42.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $42.3 billion. Dollar General also updated its FY26 guidance to $5.10-5.80 EPS.

Dollar General Stock Performance

DG opened at $80.03 on Friday. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $73.61 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $78.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.15 and a quick ratio of 0.15. The firm has a market cap of $17.60 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.18, a PEG ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 0.44. Dollar General has a 1-year low of $66.43 and a 1-year high of $168.07.

Dollar General (NYSE:DG) last announced its quarterly earnings data 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 business had revenue of $10.30 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $10.26 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.83 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 4.5% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts forecast that Dollar General will post 5.75 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Dollar General Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 22nd. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.59 per share. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, April 8th. This represents a $2.36 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.95%. Dollar General’s payout ratio is 38.88%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts have recently issued reports on DG shares. Gordon Haskett cut Dollar General from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 28th. Bernstein Bank lowered their price objective on shares of Dollar General from $98.00 to $94.00 in a research report on Friday, November 15th. BMO Capital Markets boosted their target price on shares of Dollar General from $80.00 to $84.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a report on Friday, December 6th. HSBC lowered their price target on shares of Dollar General from $100.00 to $88.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a report on Friday, November 15th. Finally, Barclays reduced their price objective on Dollar General from $102.00 to $100.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have issued a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $95.09.

Insider Activity

In other Dollar General news, Director Michael M. Calbert sold 6,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, December 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $75.27, for a total transaction of $451,620.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 120,322 shares in the company, valued at $9,056,636.94. This represents a 4.75 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Insiders own 0.49% of the company’s stock.

Dollar General Company Profile

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.