Is the price fair?
What DG's price assumes
Dollar General trades at 16.6× earnings against 19.8× for the median Discount Stores name, cheaper than its own group.
16.6
Trailing P/E · Discount Stores median 19.8 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.59
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 8.0%
Free cash flow yield · Discount Stores median 3.6%
- Growth the price implies
- −0.67%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −0.67% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +178% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q2
- 2.87
- Consumer Defensive median P/E116 names
- 20.0
- Discount Stores median P/E9 names
- 19.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.01B
- Market capitalisation
- $25.0B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +178%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $121.92 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $135.30 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $151.89 |
| 52-week range | $95.08 – $155.50 |
| Today | $127.87 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Consumer Defensive
Ranks #25 of 110 by Smart Score