How is Dollar General (DG) doing?

Dollar General is a company in the discount stores industry, based in Goodlettsville, TN, worth $28.1B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Dollar General shares are up 30% over the past year, 12 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Hot Hand. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 80th percentile on market beat, the 42nd on staying power and the 81st on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards, including 5th on “Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading?”.

$127.23+30% in a yearWorth $28.1B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

DG against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Dollar General +30%, the S&P 500 +16%.

DGS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Hot Hand

BeatingErraticGrowingBought

Beating the market on a growing business with buyers adding, but its rank swings from week to week.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Hot Hand since Sep; Turning Up before that.

Also Hot Hand (59 in all): ROST · RL · TIGO · DXCM · CAH · GMED

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Retail, 41 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Consumer-discretionary retail — the spending-cycle book.

DG, past year+30%6 of 41 in the group

Rest of the group−1%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Dollar General is +30% over the past year, against −1% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 6th of 41 in Retail.

DGRest of the group

Best in the groupTGT Target+70%ROST Ross Stores+46%CROX Crocs+42%

Worst in the groupBRBR BellRing Brands−75%CELH Celsius−55%NKE Nike−50%

Its closest rivalsDLTR Dollar Tree+35%WMT Walmart+8%FIVE Five Below+40%TGT Target+70%OLLI Ollie's Bargain Outlet−33%

All retail and apparel stocks ›Retail on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Dollar General typically moves 3.0% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 55% of large US stocks.

Typical day3.0%about $3.76 a share

Its usual3.2%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.9×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±5.9%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−35%now 19% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks16%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.1

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 3.24%

DG on our dashboards

Every question where Dollar General appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with DG highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
What moved this week? What’s leading	83Unusual	30 of 60	This week +7.0% · × normal week 1.0× · 1M +3%
What is the dollar doing, and who benefits? The economy and rates	0Gains with a weak dollar	1 of 8	Sensitivity -4.01 · Correlation -0.46 · 3M +3%
Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading? Events	2Upgraded	5 of 60	Upgrades 2 · Downgrades 0 · Latest change Gordon Haskett: Hold to Buy, Oct 6
Where are analysts raising estimates? Earnings	94Raised	30 of 60	Change, 1M +1.6% · Change, 3M +7.4% · Next-year EPS $7.90
Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks	65Middle	59 of 60	Pressure 58 · 1Y +30%
Which stocks are cheapest on cash flow? Value	82Cheap	44 of 60	Cash yield 9.8% · Price / FCF 10.2× · Cash margin 6%

Go deeper on Stox

DG’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

Open DG on Stox ›All 16 types on Atlas ›Its group on Stox ›

How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see DG’s full profile on Stox.

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