Dollar General Corporation

DG Consumer Defensive Discount Stores

Dollar General Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended January 2026) was $42.7 billion, up 5.20% from fiscal 2025. In the quarter to July 2026, revenue grew 5.24%, EPS grew 33.2%, free cash flow fell 34.0% and total debt fell 20.4%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years, revenue growth for ten, operating cash flow growth for three.

131.83 7.28 −5.23%
Market cap
$30.7B
P/E
17.9×
Fwd P/E
17.0×
Dividend yield
1.70%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
2.69
Beneish M
−3.55
Dividend safety
86/100

Dollar General Corporation (DG) Shares outstanding

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Dollar General Corporation's shares outstanding at the end of fiscal 2026 was $220.8M, unchanged from fiscal 2025. At the end of the quarter to 31 July 2026 it was $221.5M. Over the past ten years it has ranged from $219.9M (fiscal 2024) to $305.7M (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 25% of that period. Dollar General Corporation ranks 4th of 10 Discount Stores companies by shares outstanding.

Shares outstanding, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Shares outstanding Change
FY2026 $220.8M 0.36%
FY2025 $220.0M 0.04%
FY2024 $219.9M (2.81%)
FY2023 $226.3M (4.03%)
FY2022 $235.8M (5.70%)
FY2021 $250.1M (3.09%)
FY2020 $258.1M (3.03%)
FY2019 $266.1M (2.65%)
FY2018 $273.4M (3.15%)
FY2017 $282.3M (4.39%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Shares outstanding Change
Jul 2026 $221.5M (0.02%)
Apr 2026 $221.6M 0.34%
Jan 2026 $220.8M (0.06%)
Oct 2025 $221.0M 0.05%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low $219.9M High $305.7M
Ten-year median $254.1M
Current reading's percentile 25

Shares outstanding against peers

What Shares outstanding is

Shares (Diluted, Weighted) tells an investor how many shares a company’s earnings are spread across once potential new shares are counted.

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