Market Update: Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) – Show Love for Less this Valentine’s Day With Dollar General

[Marketwired] – Dollar General has all the essentials to help show your love for less this Valentine’s Day with everyday low prices and exceptional savings on everything to celebrate this year. Customers can take advantage … Read more on this. Dollar General Corporation (DG) , currently valued at $20.50B, began trading this morning at $68.81. Today’s price range has been between $68.74 and $70.61 per share and has traded between $59.75 and $81.42 over the past 12 months. Dollar General (DG) shares are currently priced at 17.54x this year’s forecasted earnings, which makes them relatively expensive compared to the industry ’s 12.96x earnings multiple for the same period. The company pays shareholders $0.88 per share annually in dividends, yielding 1.26%. Consensus earnings for the current quarter by the 25 sell-side analysts covering the stock is an estimate of $1.26 per share, which would be $0.09 better than the year-ago quarter and a $0.02 sequential decrease. In looking at the bigger picture, the full-year EPS estimate of $3.92 would be a $0.42 improvement when compared to the previous year’s annual results. The quarterly earnings estimate is predicated on a consensus revenue forecast of $5.29 Billion. If reported, that would be a 7.09% increase over the year-ago quarter. Recently, BB&T Capital Mkts upgraded DG from Hold to Buy (Nov 20, 2015). Previously, BofA/Merrill upgraded DG from Underperform to Neutral. Given all the information above, we should disclose to readers that the average price target is $81.61, which is 18.60% above than it opened this morning. See more in (NYSE:DG) Similar Articles: Market Update: Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) – Dollar General Corporation Announces Pricing of $500.0 Million of Senior Notes Company Update: Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) – Dollar General Corporation To Present At The Goldman Sachs 22nd Annual Global Retailing Conference on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Company Update: Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) – Dollar General Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend