Telsey Advisory Group Reiterates Market Perform Rating for Dollar General (NYSE:DG)

Dollar General (NYSE:DG)‘s stock had its “market perform” rating restated by research analysts at Telsey Advisory Group in a research note issued to investors on Thursday,Benzinga reports. They presently have a $85.00 price target on the stock. Telsey Advisory Group’s price target points to a potential upside of 7.39% from the stock’s current price. Telsey Advisory Group also issued estimates for Dollar General’s Q4 2025 earnings at $1.55 EPS and Q4 2026 earnings at $1.63 EPS.

A number of other equities analysts have also issued reports on the company. HSBC reduced their target price on Dollar General from $100.00 to $88.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, November 15th. BMO Capital Markets raised their target price on Dollar General from $80.00 to $84.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research note on Friday, December 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “hold” rating and issued a $80.00 target price (down previously from $90.00) on shares of Dollar General in a research note on Monday, March 3rd. Barclays reduced their target price on Dollar General from $102.00 to $100.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. Finally, Gordon Haskett lowered Dollar General from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 28th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have assigned a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Dollar General presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $92.26.

Dollar General Stock Down 1.0 %

Shares of NYSE DG opened at $79.15 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 1.15, a quick ratio of 0.15 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. The stock has a market capitalization of $17.41 billion, a PE ratio of 13.04, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 0.44. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $73.69 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $78.39. Dollar General has a 12-month low of $66.43 and a 12-month high of $164.12.

Dollar General (NYSE:DG) last issued 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 firm had revenue of $10.30 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $10.26 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.83 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.5% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts expect that Dollar General will post 5.75 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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 transaction, the director now directly 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 document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Company insiders own 0.49% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Dollar General

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. IMG Wealth Management Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Dollar General in the fourth quarter valued at $25,000. Altshuler Shaham Ltd purchased a new position in Dollar General in the fourth quarter valued at $25,000. Ameriflex Group Inc. purchased a new position in Dollar General in the fourth quarter valued at $31,000. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB purchased a new position in Dollar General in the third quarter valued at $33,000. Finally, Providence First Trust Co purchased a new position in Dollar General in the fourth quarter valued at $33,000. 91.77% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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.