Dollar General Corporation (DG)
Consumer Defensive · NYQ
Price as at 26 Aug 2026, 20:20 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Dollar General Corporation trades at USD122.78, which is 57% below the USD193.22 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 41 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 17.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
DG dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | USD1.77 | 3 |
| 2025 | USD2.36 | 4 |
| 2024 | USD2.36 | 4 |
| 2023 | USD1.77 | 3 |
| 2022 | USD2.62 | 5 |
| 2021 | USD1.62 | 4 |
| 2020 | USD1.40 | 4 |
| 2019 | USD1.25 | 4 |
| 2018 | USD1.13 | 4 |
| 2017 | USD0.780 | 3 |
| 2016 | USD1.00 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
DG earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 31 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Dollar General Corporation
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 towels, bath tissues, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, disinfectants, and laundry products; packaged food, such as cereals, pasta, canned soups, canned meats, fruits and vegetables, condiments, spices, sugar, and flour; and perishables, including milk, eggs, bread, refrigerated and frozen food, beer, wine, and produce; candy, cookies, crackers, salty snacks, and carbonated beverages; over-the-counter medicines and personal care products including soap, body wash, shampoo, cosmetics, dental hygiene and foot care products; pet supplies and pet food; and tobacco products. The company also provides seasonal products comprising holiday items, toys, batteries, small electronics, greeting cards, stationery, prepaid phones and accessories, gardening supplies, hardware, automotive, and home office supplies; home products include kitchen supplies, cookware, small appliances, light bulbs, storage containers, frames, candles, craft supplies and kitchen, and bed and bath soft goods; and apparel products for infants, toddlers, girls, boys, women and men, as well as socks, underwear, disposable diapers, shoes and accessories. The company was formerly known as J.L. Turner & Son, Inc. and changed its name to Dollar General Corporation in 1968. Dollar General Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
DG passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
21 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Richard Pzena, PZENA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC$818.95M · 2.7% of book
- First Eagle, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC$518.00M · 0.8% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$514.22M · 0.2% of book
- Baillie Gifford, BAILLIE GIFFORD & CO$374.34M · 0.4% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$340.55M · 0.2% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is Dollar General Corporation (DG) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of USD193.22, DG at USD122.78 is 57% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own DG?
21 of the institutions we track reported a position in DG in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is DG's P/E ratio?
DG trades at 17.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Dollar General Corporation (DG) pay a dividend?
Yes. Dollar General Corporation yields 1.96% at the current share price. It has paid USD2.36 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 11 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its DG data?
Fundamentals for DG come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 26 Aug 2026, 20:20 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.