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Dollar General Corporation (DG) stock score

Consumer Defensive · Discount Stores · United States

$127.23 ▲ +2.38% today

62.2
Dad Score, out of 100
middling

Dollar General Corporation (DG) is a Discount Stores company in the Consumer Defensive sector, listed in the United States. On DadFin's weekly run it scores 62.2 out of 100 on the Dad Score, a middling reading that places the business ahead of 62% of the 5,774 US and Canadian stocks DadFin fully scores. Inside Consumer Defensive it ranks #77 of 232. Its strongest axes are valuation, quality and growth; its weakest are price action and conviction.

Scores from the run of Oct 4, 2026. The Dad Score answers one question: how good is this business, measured against its own sector. How it is built →

The eight axes

Valuation
Strong
Quality
Above average
Growth
Above average
Price action
Weak
Risk
Average
Conviction
Below average
Liquidity
Strong
Macro
Weak

Each axis is ranked inside the stock's own sector. Subscribers see the percentile and every input behind each bar.

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)15.4×
P/E (forward)14.3×
Dividend yield1.98%
Return on capital9.1%
Operating margin6.8%
Revenue growth (YoY)+5.2%
FCF yield8.1%
Net debt / EBITDA3.96×
Piotroski F-Score7 / 9
52-week change+23.7%
Market cap$26.2B
Next earningsDec 3, 2026

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Discount Stores peers

StockCompanyDad ScoreBandMarket cap
WMTWalmart Inc.26.4weak$827.2B
COSTCostco Wholesale Corporation78.5good$408.1B
TGTTarget Corporation63.1middling$70.9B
DOL.TODollarama Inc.56.1middling$49.4B
DLTRDollar Tree, Inc.76.3good$21.0B
BJBJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.77.5good$12.0B
TBBBBBB Foods Inc.57.1middling$6.3B
PSMTPriceSmart, Inc.71.2good$5.3B

Prices from DadFin's live feed (refreshed about every 15 minutes in the session); scores from the weekly run of Oct 4, 2026. Fundamentals as reported in the latest filings. Research, not investment advice.