Dollar General has grown revenue 4.0% a year over three years and 5.3% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −7.6%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +4.0% (Discount Stores median +9.1%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +5.3%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −7.6%, earnings lagged revenue: the growth is costing something. Years of annual history on file: 17, FY2009 to FY2025, as filed.

DGDollar General

Consumer Defensive

$127.27+21% 1Y

$127.27

$95.0852 weeks$155.50

Latest close: back above its 200-day averageOct 9, 2026what changed →

Is it growing?

Good

Growing: earnings up +42% year on year and operating margin widening (+1.3 points).

2 good, 1 neutral

Revenue trend+5% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +5% a year.

Earnings trend+42% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing faster than revenue, so margins or the share count are helping.

Margin direction+1.3 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 5.6% now against 4.3% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jul 31, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearsmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is DG growing?

Dollar General has grown revenue 4.0% a year over three years and 5.3% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −7.6%.

+4.0%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Discount Stores median +9.1% · growing slowly · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +5.3%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +4.0% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −7.6%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +4.0% · earnings lagged revenue: the growth is costing something
Years of annual history on file: 17
Years of annual history on file · FY2009 to FY2025, as filed