Dollar GeneralDGRevenue: is the business selling more than it used to?
$42.7B+5% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Revenue reached $42.7B in 2025, compounding +6% a year since 2021 though the pace has cooled. The trailing twelve months are already running at $43.6B, ahead of the last full year.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGNet income: how much of that revenue becomes profit?
$1.5B+34% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Net income was $1.5B in 2025, compounding -11% a year over three years. Earnings per share moved +43% over the last twelve months. Trailing twelve-month profit stands at $1.7B.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGHow fast is it growing, year by year?
+5.2%revenue growth, FY 2025
→Revenue grew +5% in 2025 against a five-year average of +17%. Earnings grew faster (+34%), so each new dollar of sales is arriving more profitably.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGRevenue per share: is your slice growing as fast as the company?
$193.49revenue per share, FY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-07-31), not a full fiscal year
→Revenue per share reached $193.49 in 2025, compounding +7% a year against +6% for DG as a whole. Buybacks added roughly 1.8 points to your per-share result. Free cash flow per share stands at $10.84.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGFree cash flow: what is left in real cash after everything?
$2.4B+42% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Free cash flow was $2.4B in 2025, compounding +7% a year since 2021. The trailing twelve months stand at $2.0B.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGWhere does each dollar of revenue actually go?
→Of $42.7B in 2025 sales, $1.5B reaches net profit - 4 cents on the dollar. The largest single deduction is producing the product ($29.6B).
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGHow much of every sales dollar ends up as free cash?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→6 cents of every sales dollar became free cash in 2025, and it has held steady since 2024.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGWhat does staying competitive cost, per dollar of sales?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-07-31), not a full fiscal year
→The biggest claim on each sales dollar is capital spending, at 3% of revenue (stock compensation 0%).
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGWhen sales grow, do profits grow faster?
→Operating profit outgrew revenue in only 2 of the last 5 years. Costs are growing roughly in step with the business, so scale isn't yet paying for itself.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGMargins: of every $1 of sales, how much survives each cost layer?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-07-31), not a full fiscal year
→Operating margin has held near 5% since 2024. After everything, 4 cents of each sales dollar reaches net profit.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGWhat does it earn on the money it uses?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-07-31), not a full fiscal year
→ROE of 18% sits well above ROCE of 9%. A meaningful share of the shareholder return is manufactured with leverage rather than operations.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGWhat has the market paid for DG over time?
17.3xP/E today
◌ 2026 = at the latest close (2026-09-04), over the trailing twelve months; earlier years are annual averages
→At 17.3x earnings, the market is paying about what it has typically paid DG's own 6-year median of 19.1x. Neither a bargain nor a stretch by its own standard.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGWhat cash return does the business throw off per dollar of market value?
6.8%FCF yield today
◌ 2026 = at the latest close (2026-09-04), over the trailing twelve months; earlier years are annual averages
→Every dollar of market value currently buys 6.8% of annual free cash flow, right at DG's 6-year median of 6.5%.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGCould it handle its debt if things went wrong?
→Debt of $4.6B sits against $1.6B of cash, or 0.5x shareholders' equity. Earnings cover interest 7.5 times - adequate, with less room than it looks in a downturn.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGIs the company's own capital growing?
→The company's own capital grew from $6.7B in 2023 to $9.3B (+38%). The business is building book value rather than consuming it.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGHow much goes back, and how much leaks out as stock comp?
→Shareholders received $2.7B in buybacks and $520M in dividends in 2022. Stock compensation issued $91M of new shares in the same year, offsetting 3% of that.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGHow fast is your ownership being diluted - or concentrated?
→The share count grew 0.4% in 2025. Your slice of the company shrinks by that much each year unless earnings grow faster.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGIs the dividend cheque growing?
→The dividend per share reached $2.35 in 2025, compounding +11% a year since 2020.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGCan it afford the dividend?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-07-31), not a full fiscal year
→The dividend consumed 34% of profit and 22% of free cash flow in 2025. That leaves room to keep paying through a weak year.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGDoes DG earn more on its capital than that capital costs?
→DG earns 9.2% on the capital it employs, below the 10% most investors treat as the cost of capital. It was 15.8% in 2021, so the trend is down, though the pace has cooled.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGDG has issued or retired shares - did shareholders end up better off?
→DG has shrunk its share count -32% from 2009 to 2025, so each remaining share owns more of the business. Revenue per share is +433% over the same years.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31
Dollar GeneralDGAre the people running it buying or selling?
→Insiders sold $3M on the open market and bought nothing. Many sales are pre-scheduled diversification rather than a view on the price. A further 46 filings were grants, option exercises or tax withholding, which say nothing either way.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-07-31