Dollar General (DG)

• Market cap: $23.4B
• 1 day: 1.85%
• 5 days: -0.51%
• 1 month: -5.49%
• 3 months: -6.34%
• 6 months: 32.92%
• Year to date: 40.34%
• 1 year: 23.4%
• 5 years: -47.84%
• 10 years: 48.68%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Discount Stores

About: With more than 20,000 locations, Dollar General's banner is nearly ubiquitous across the rural United States. Dollar General serves as a convenient shopping destination for fill-in store trips, with its value proposition most relevant to consumers in small communities with a dearth of shopping options. The retailer operates a frugal store of about 7,500 square feet and primarily offers an assortment of branded and private-label consumable items (80% of net sales) such as paper and cleaning products, packaged food, and health and beauty items at low prices. Dollar General also offers a limited assortment of seasonal merchandise, home products, and apparel. The firm sells most items at a price point of $10 or less.

Employees: 170,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

134% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 213 | Existing positions closed: 91

50% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 18 [Q1] → 27 (+9) [Q2]

30% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $18B [Q1] → $23.4B (+$5.33B) [Q2]

22% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 370 | Existing positions reduced: 303

12% more funds holding

Funds holding: 896 [Q1] → 1,004 (+108) [Q2]

0.16% more ownership

Funds ownership: 93.18% [Q1] → 93.35% (+0.16%) [Q2]

9% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $929M | Put options by funds: $1.03B

Research analyst outlook

14 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $109
• Avg. target: $123
• High target: $135

14 analyst ratings

• positive: 5 36%
• neutral: 9 64%
• negative: 0 0%

JP Morgan Matthew Boss	$109	Neutral Maintained	16 Sep 2025
Bernstein Zhihan Ma	$134	Outperform Maintained	29 Aug 2025
Guggenheim John Heinbockel	$125	Buy Reiterated	29 Aug 2025
Morgan Stanley Simeon Gutman	$125	Equal-Weight Maintained	29 Aug 2025
UBS Michael Lasser	$135	Buy Maintained	29 Aug 2025