Dollar General Corp (DG) saw an uptrend of 3961686% in the recent trading with $4410000.0 being its most recent. The current price level -15.14% lower than the highest price of $135.46 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 73.04% higher than the lowest price of $66.43 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on DG appeared in (MarketBeat) under the title “The Boring Is Beautiful Portfolio: 3 Stocks for a Worried World” on Jun-22-25.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 24 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.39 for the stock.
Dollar General Corp Earnings – What Happened With DG
Coming around sales and income figures on DG Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
Dollar General Corp – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 220.07 million. DG does have institutional investors; and they hold 95.34% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS was the top most holder in Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG) with an ownership of 25.22 million shares of the company or 11.4665 of the stake worth $3.33 billion. The filing also reveals VANGUARD GROUP INC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 11.3394 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $3.3 billion for having 24.94 million shares in hand.
PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 9.8768 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1261.0 institutions which have possession in DG’s shares.
Key Metrics forDG
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Dollar General Corp has a debt to equity ratio of 2.21.
Technical Analysis of Dollar General Corp (NYSE:DG) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Dollar General Corp (DG), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 4,021,770 shares and 100% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Buy. Medium term indicators at an average of 100% are spotting the stock at Buy with its 50-day average volume of 3,835,066 shares. And to end, DG’s 100-day average volume is 4,163,997 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Buy for the stock.
