Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) is 3.64% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $66.43 and a high of $168.07 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The DG stock was last observed hovering at around $79.03 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.45%.
Currently trading at $78.58, the stock is 6.35% and 6.41% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 4.32 million and changing -0.57% at the moment leaves the stock -19.49% off its SMA200. DG registered -44.45% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -36.24%.
The stock witnessed a 9.47% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 7.25%, and is 4.73% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.43% over the week and 2.83% over the month.
Dollar General Corp (DG) has around 185800 employees, a market worth around $17.28B and $40.17B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.94 and Fwd P/E is 13.35. Profit margin for the company is 3.33%. Distance from 52-week low is 18.29% and -53.25% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (5.82%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -23.92% this year.
Dollar General Corp (DG) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 219.93M, and float is at 219.30M with Short Float at 5.90%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS with over 25.22 million shares valued at $3.33 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.4665% of the DG Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 24.94 million shares valued at $3.3 billion to account for 11.3474 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ which holds 21.72 million shares representing 9.8768% and valued at over $2.87 billion, while BLACKROCK INC. holds 8.1665 of the shares totaling 17.95 million with a market value of $2.37 billion.
Dollar General Corp (DG) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by CALBERT MICHAEL M, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that CALBERT MICHAEL M sold 6,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 31 ’24 at a price of $75.27 per share for a total of $0.45 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 13 ’24, TAYLOR EMILY C (EVP & Chief Merchandising Ofc) disposed off 4,740 shares at an average price of $77.44 for $0.37 million. The insider now directly holds 15,575 shares of Dollar General Corp (DG).
