DG

Dollar General Corporation ·NYSE·Consumer Staples
119.57 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -97.7
3.7%
Brown Bear Score
21.7%
Business Conviction Score
20.9%
Position Health Score
0.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +3.8% · range 95.94–156.24

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 7.7%
OCF / assets 11.7%
FCF / revenue 8.5%
Gross margin 30.8%
ROIC 9.1%
Forward P/E 14.9

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +10.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-08-27 · consensus EPS 2.06

Q3 23 revenue: 9.80bnQ3 23 net income: 468.83mQ3 23 EPS: 2.13Q4 23 revenue: 9.69bnQ4 23 net income: 276.25mQ4 23 EPS: 1.26Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 9.86bnQ1 24 net income: 401.81mQ1 24 EPS: 1.83Q2 24 revenue: 9.91bnQ2 24 net income: 363.32mQ2 24 EPS: 1.65Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 10.21bnQ3 24 net income: 374.19mQ3 24 EPS: 1.70Q4 24 revenue: 10.18bnQ4 24 net income: 196.53mQ4 24 EPS: 0.89Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 10.30bnQ1 25 net income: 191.22mQ1 25 EPS: 0.87Q2 25 revenue: 10.44bnQ2 25 net income: 391.93mQ2 25 EPS: 1.78Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 10.73bnQ3 25 net income: 411.43mQ3 25 EPS: 1.86Q4 25 revenue: 10.65bnQ4 25 net income: 282.66mQ4 25 EPS: 1.28Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 10.91bnQ1 26 net income: 426.30mQ1 26 EPS: 1.93Q2 26 revenue: 10.79bnQ2 26 net income: 444.13mQ2 26 EPS: 2.00Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.87–2.13, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2026-05-01 10.79bn +3.4% 444.13m 2.00 2026-06-02
2026-01-30 (derived) 10.91bn +5.9% 426.30m 1.93 2026-03-20
2025-10-31 10.65bn +4.6% 282.66m 1.28 2025-12-04
2025-08-01 10.73bn +5.1% 411.43m 1.86 2025-08-28

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±4.8%
On an ordinary two days ±1.5% — filings move it 3.1× as much
Direction 3 up, 9 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +9.0% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-08-25: price -4.5%Q4 22 revenue +11.1% year on yearQ4 22 filed 2022-12-01: price -4.6%Q4 22Q2 23 revenue +6.8% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-06-01: price -17.4%Q3 23 revenue +3.9% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-08-31: price -17.4%Q3 23Q4 23 revenue +2.4% year on yearQ4 23 filed 2023-12-07: price -5.0%Q2 24 revenue +6.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-05-30: price -1.7%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +4.2% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-08-29: price -33.0%Q4 24 revenue +5.0% year on yearQ4 24 filed 2024-12-05: price +2.6%Q4 24Q2 25 revenue +5.3% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-06-03: price +15.0%Q3 25 revenue +5.1% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-08-28: price -2.2%Q3 25Q4 25 revenue +4.6% year on yearQ4 25 filed 2025-12-04: price +20.5%Q2 26 revenue +3.4% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-06-02: price -4.4%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-05-01 2026-06-02 +3.4% -4.4% +13.4%
2025-10-31 2025-12-04 +4.6% +20.5% +8.6%
2025-08-01 2025-08-28 +5.1% -2.2% -8.5%
2025-05-02 2025-06-03 +5.3% +15.0% -2.6%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 221.6M as at 2026-05-01
Change over 1 year +0.6%
Change over 3 years +0.7%
Public float $21.10bn as at 2025-08-01 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 115.06 — 120.20
Protective stop 112.20 (Structure, 4.6% risk)
Support 113.95 (6 touches, 5.0% away)
Resistance 126.05 (5.4% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 5.0% above 113.95, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 5.4% below 126.05, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 6 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 4.6% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice INSIDE the cloud | periods 8/24/47 (90% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness45% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading inside its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 116.95 to 120.29. Inside the band those averages disagree with each other, so the indicator is not saying much either way. Its shorter-term averages point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days -0.4%
63 days +16.1%
126 days -18.2%
252 days +4.4%
Below 252d high23.5%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway The share price is close to the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been closing. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width12.6% of price
Recent tightest12.2% (3 sessions ago, narrower than 68.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.03×
Band 116.40 — 131.99

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 13% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 114.80–128.682026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger MACD bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating
  2. Trigger 2 EMA50 reclaim +0.6% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 MACD histogram above zero secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Deteriorating
  4. Trigger 4 Volume confirmation above 1.5x +0.50x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 EMA20 reclaim +3.0% gap is broadly stable · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

DG: no binary-event flag. Near IV 37%, far IV 41% (ratio 0.91), implied move 4.7%.

Implied volatility 37% near (9d) · 41% far (100d)
Term structure 0.91× near/far
Historical volatility 38%
Implied vs historical 1.00×
Implied move ±4.7% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.53×
Skew Call Skew (0.74×)
Call wall 175.00 (+46.3% away)
Put wall 75.00 (-37.3% away)
Gamma pin 145.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 4.7% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Stock Rotation Headwind

Rotation health 1.9/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 1.9
Rotation strength 89.9
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 78.7 78.4
Stock vs SPY Lagging 76.0 84.6
Sector vs SPY Lagging 84.3 87.1

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 6/9 (+8.0)
  • Altman Z-score 2.82 (+2.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 30.8% (+1.1)
  • ROIC quality: 9.1% (+1.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 8.5% (+2.6)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.069) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.06 -> -0.07) (+2.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 5.7 (+3.0)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 58.9, 5-day change +9.3 (+7.4)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 1.9% (+4.6)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.21 (+1.6)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 2: weak MACD histogram (-1.01)
  • Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-15.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope deteriorating (-5.0)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.79x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 2: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.06)
  • Track 2: weak/falling ADX (18.0, falling)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.39)
  • Track 2: Bearish MACD divergence
  • Track 2: price below EMA20 by 2.9%
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope deteriorating -0.2%
  • Track 2: MACD histogram deteriorating (-1.23)
  • Track 2: weak VPT confirmation (-0.00)
  • Track 2: price below EMA50 by 0.6%
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 18.9/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.