With 3.06 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.72 million shares. During the session, the Discount Stores company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $114.52 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $112.445. The 52-week range on DG shows that it touched its highest point at $135.46 and its lowest point at $66.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $114.15. With its current market cap of 24.94 billion, DG has annualized dividend of $2.36 while the current yield stands at 2.08%. DG paid its most recent dividend on 1744070400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1751932800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.27.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of DG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 16.61%, but this was up by 23.20% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 36.85% while six-month performance rose 42.53%. The stock lost -15.70% in the past year, while it has gained 49.45% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for DG yields 5.24 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.41. For the next quarter, that number is 1.57. This implies an EPS growth rate of -3.11% for this year and 11.75% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.78% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -5.08%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 220.07 million DG shares are outstanding with a float of 219.29 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-15, short shares totaled 9.09 million, which was 413.00002000000006 higher than short shares on 1744675200. In addition to Mr. Todd J. Vasos as the firm’s CEO & Director, Ms. Kelly M. Dilts serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95724 of DG’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-05-02, DG reported revenue of $10435979000.0 and operating income of $576113000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $nan and diluted EPS was $1.78.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for DG since 24 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 17 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With DG analysts setting a high price target of 135.0 and a low target of 80.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 114.69464. Based on these targets, DG could surge 19.14% to reach the target high and fall by -29.4% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 1.22% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $7.63981 being high and $7.24034 being low. For DG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.46005.
