Dollar General Corp. (DG) went down -0.34% yesterday: Is this the Most Sought-After Stock Today?

Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) flaunted slowness of -0.34% at $144.49, before settling in for the price of $144.99 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, DG posted a 52-week range of $101.09-$222.99.

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In the past 5-years timespan, the Consumer Defensive sector firm’s annual sales growth was 8.83%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 4.82%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -4.18%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $219.66 million, simultaneously with a float of $218.95 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $31.74 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $148.68, while the 200-day Moving Average is $138.48.

Dollar General Corp. (DG) Ownership Facts and Figures

Sometimes it is also beneficial to study the sentiment of large-scale investors towards the stock of the Dollar General Corp. industry. Dollar General Corp.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.33%, in contrast to 93.27% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Apr 11 ’24, this organization’s Director sold 3,009 shares at the rate of 155.72, making the entire transaction reach 468,567 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 3,248. Preceding that transaction, on Apr 04 ’24, Company’s EVP & Chief Information Ofc sold 5,909 for 162.23, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 958,616. This particular insider is now the holder of 28,579 in total.

Dollar General Corp. (DG) Earnings and Revenue Records

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 6.84 per share during the current fiscal year.

Dollar General Corp.’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -4.18% and is forecasted to reach 8.18 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will decrease by -0.55% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 4.82% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Dollar General Corp. (DG). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.15. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 4.35. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $19.13, and its Beta score is 0.43. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.82. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 45.90.

In the same vein, DG’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 7.55, a figure that is expected to reach 1.57 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 8.18 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Dollar General Corp. (DG)

Now, what If we examine the latest scores posted by [Dollar General Corp., DG]. During the last 5-days, its volume was lower the volume of 2.39 million it reported in year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 6.03% While, its Average True Range was 4.33.

Raw Stochastic average of Dollar General Corp. (DG) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 48.26%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 6.97% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 27.10% that was lower than 31.30% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.