Dollar General Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

DG Stock  USD 155.75  3.80  2.50%   
Allowing for the 90-day total investment horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Dollar General is 'Hold'. Macroaxis provides Dollar General buy-hold-or-sell recommendation only in the context of selected investment horizon and investor attitude towards risk assumed by holding DG positions. The advice algorithm takes into account all of Dollar General's available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site. Key drivers impacting Osisko Gold Ro's buy or sell advice are summarized below:
Real Value
137.72
Target Price
135.65
Hype Value
151.73
Market Value
155.75
Naive Value
149.9
A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell Dollar General given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards Dollar General. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for Dollar General, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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In addition, we conduct extensive research on individual companies such as Dollar and provide practical buy, sell, or hold advice based on investors' investing horizon and their risk tolerance towards Dollar General. Also, note that the market value of any Company could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in price.

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The Dollar recommendation should be used to complement the buy-or-sell advice compiled from the current analysts' consensus on Dollar General. Macroaxis does not own or have any residual interests in Dollar General or other equities on which the buy-or-sell advice is provided. Please provide your input below to execute Dollar General's advice using the current market data and latest reported fundamentals.

Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell Dollar GeneralBuy Dollar General
Hold

Market Performance

GoodDetails

Volatility

Very steadyDetails

Hype Condition

Low keyDetails

Current Valuation

OvervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

Very LowDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Almost mirrors the marketDetails

Investor Sentiment

InterestedDetails

Analyst Consensus

BuyDetails

Financial Strenth (F Score)

HealthyDetails

Financial Leverage

Not RatedDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

Possible ManipulatorDetails
For the selected time horizon Dollar General has a Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.1022, Jensen Alpha of 0.1523, Total Risk Alpha of (0.13), Sortino Ratio of 0.078 and Treynor Ratio of 0.2638
Macroaxis provides advice on Dollar General to complement and cross-verify current analyst consensus on Dollar General. Our investment recommendation engine determines the company's potential to grow exclusively from the perspective of an investor's current risk tolerance and investing horizon. To make sure Dollar General is not overpriced, please confirm all Dollar General fundamentals, including its shares owned by institutions, gross profit, debt to equity, as well as the relationship between the price to book and cash and equivalents . Given that Dollar General has a price to earning of 306.23 X, we urge you to verify Dollar General market performance and probability of bankruptcy to ensure the company can sustain itself in the current economic cycle given your prevailing risk tolerance and investing horizon.

Dollar General Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Over 94.0% of the company shares are held by institutions such as insurance companies
On 23rd of January 2024 Dollar General paid $ 0.59 per share dividend to its current shareholders
Latest headline from benzinga.com: Dollar Generals Turnaround Seems Underway, CEO Return Brings Stability These Analysts Look At Q4 Results, Outlook

Dollar General Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Dollar General's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Dollar General's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Dollar General stock daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Dollar General price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Dollar General returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Dollar General.
Mean Return
0.31
Value At Risk
-3.01
Potential Upside
3.97
Standard Deviation
2.09
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Dollar General historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Dollar Stock Institutional Investors

Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as Dollar General is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Dollar General backward and forwards among themselves. Dollar General's institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase Dollar General's securities or originates loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
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Note, although Dollar General's institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

Dollar General Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Change To Inventory(578.8M)(575.8M)(550.1M)(1.7B)(299.1M)(314.0M)
Change In Cash4.8M1.1B(1.0B)36.7M155.7M163.5M
Free Cash Flow1.5B2.8B1.8B424.0M691.6M542.7M
Depreciation504.8M574.2M641.3M724.9M848.8M891.2M
Other Non Cash Items8.3M11.6M191.0M530.5M19.1M18.2M
Dividends Paid327.6M355.9M392.2M493.7M518.0M543.9M
Capital Expenditures784.8M1.0B1.1B1.6B1.7B1.8B
Net Income1.7B2.7B2.4B2.4B1.7B1.7B
End Period Cash Flow240.3M1.4B344.8M381.6M537.3M564.1M
Change To Netincome112.3M115.2M383.6M838.5M964.3M1.0B
Net Borrowings55.2M1.1B45.6M2.8B3.2B3.4B
Investments(782.5M)(1.0B)(1.1B)(1.6B)(1.4B)(1.5B)

Dollar General Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Dollar General or Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Dollar General's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Dollar stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over NYSE Composite
0.15
β
Beta against NYSE Composite1.15
σ
Overall volatility
1.99
Ir
Information ratio 0.08

Dollar General Volatility Alert

Dollar General currently demonstrates below-average downside deviation. It has Information Ratio of 0.08 and Jensen Alpha of 0.15. However, we advise investors to further question Dollar General expected returns to ensure all indicators are consistent with the current outlook about its relatively low value at risk. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Dollar General's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Dollar General's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different stocks as prices fall.

Dollar General Implied Volatility

Dollar General's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Dollar General stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Dollar General's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Dollar General stock will not fluctuate a lot when Dollar General's options are near their expiration.

Dollar General Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Dollar General's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Dollar General's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Dollar General and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Dollar General or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Dollar General's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Dollar General by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare Dollar General to competition
FundamentalsDollar GeneralPeer Average
Return On Equity0.27-0.31
Return On Asset0.0511-0.14
Profit Margin0.04 %(1.27) %
Operating Margin0.06 %(5.51) %
Current Valuation51.07 B16.62 B
Shares Outstanding219.5 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders0.28 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions93.67 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted4.85 M4.71 M
Price To Earning306.23 X28.72 X
Price To Book5.17 X9.51 X
Price To Sales0.86 X11.42 X
Revenue37.84 B9.43 B
Gross Profit11.82 B27.38 B
EBITDA4.05 B3.9 B
Net Income1.66 B570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents381.58 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share1.45 X5.01 X
Total Debt17.66 B5.32 B
Debt To Equity2.50 %48.70 %
Current Ratio1.01 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share30.74 X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations2.39 B971.22 M
Short Ratio2.36 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share8.69 X3.12 X
Price To Earnings To Growth7.92 X4.89 X
Target Price152.18
Beta0.41-0.15
Market Capitalization33.35 B19.03 B
Total Asset29.08 B29.47 B
Retained Earnings1.66 B9.33 B
Working Capital1.69 B1.48 B
Current Asset3.43 B9.34 B
Note: Acquisition by Todd Vasos of 250000 shares of Dollar General subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]

Dollar General Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Dollar . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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 2021 2022 2023 2024 (projected)
Short and Long Term Debt Total14.2B17.7B20.3B21.3B
Total Assets26.3B29.1B33.4B35.1B

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When determining whether Dollar General is a strong investment it is important to analyze Dollar General's competitive position within its industry, examining market share, product or service uniqueness, and competitive advantages. Beyond financials and market position, potential investors should also consider broader economic conditions, industry trends, and any regulatory or geopolitical factors that may impact Dollar General's future performance. For an informed investment choice regarding Dollar Stock, refer to the following important reports:
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Is Dollar General's industry expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Dollar General. If investors know Dollar will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Dollar General listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.38)
Dividend Share
2.36
Earnings Share
8.69
Revenue Per Share
176.34
Quarterly Revenue Growth
(0.03)
The market value of Dollar General is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Dollar that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Dollar General's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Dollar General's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Dollar General's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Dollar General's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Dollar General's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Dollar General is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Dollar General's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.