DG Stock Price, Chart, Stats & News

Dollar General Corporation (DG) is a dividend-paying stock with a current dividend yield of 1.84% as of Jul 17, 2026. It pays $2.36 per share over the trailing twelve months and distributes quarterly. Its dividend has grown at a 8.63% 5-year compound annual rate.
Dividend safety
Dividend coverage looks healthy — DG pays out about 33% of earnings.
DG chart
Fundamentals
Gross margin | 30.66% |
Operating margin | 5.16% |
Pretax margin | 4.60% |
Net margin | 3.54% |
Effective tax rate | 23.02% |
ROA | 4.88% |
ROE | 18.66% |
D/E | 1.85x |
Interest coverage ratio | 9.56x |
DG valuation
P/E | 18.09x |
P/S | 0.60x |
P/B | 3.03x |
P/CF | 5.56x |
P/FCF | 8.37x |
P/OCF | 5.56x |
PEG | 0.92x |
EV multiple | 3.45x |
About
Dollar General Corporation is a prominent discount retail chain that offers a wide array of merchandise across the southern, southwestern, Midwestern, and eastern regions of the United States. Its extensive product assortment primarily features consumable items. This includes household essentials such as paper products, cleaning supplies, and laundry detergents; a wide array of food options, ranging from shelf-stable groceries like cereals, pasta, canned goods, condiments, and baking ingredients, to fresh and refrigerated perishables such as milk, eggs, bread, and frozen foods, as well as alcoholic beverages like beer and wine.
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