DGDollar General
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap vs its sector.
Priced for a decline (~−1% a year). The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 4% a year, expectations look modest.
In its normal range: P/E 16.6 vs a 18.1 median over 41 quarters (−9% vs median).
Sector median 16.6× across 78 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, 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.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What DG's price assumes
Dollar General trades at 16.6× earnings against 20.3× for the median Discount Stores name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Discount Stores median 20.3 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.57
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 8.0%
Free cash flow yield · Discount Stores median 4.2%
- 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.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- 2.69
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- 11.5
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- 0.64
- Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names
- 20.2
- Discount Stores median P/E9 names
- 20.3
- 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 | $120.94 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $139.52 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $152.25 |
| 52-week range | $95.08 – $155.50 |
| Today | $127.27 |
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 #42 of 131 by RyuScore