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DOLLAR GENERAL CORPEvidence as of 2026-09-26The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · DOLLAR GENERAL CORP
Dollar General Corporation, a discount retailer, provides various merchandise products in the southern, southwestern, midwestern, and eastern United States. It offers consumable products, including paper and cleaning products, such as paper towels, bath tissues, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, disinfectants, and laundry products; packaged food comprising cereals, pasta, canned soups, fruits and vegetables,…
Management team
- Ms. Emily C. Taylor · Executive VP & Chief Merchandising OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Steven R. Deckard · Executive VP of Strategy & DevelopmentFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Rhonda M. Taylor J.D. · Executive VP & General CounselFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Kelly M. Dilts · Executive VP & CFOFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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−0.4 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
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Editor's note
Written after the debate settled. The rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
Revenue for Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-25) was $ 11,290,378,000, up from $ 10,786,965,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-29) and up from $ 10,727,737,000 in Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-08-26). Gross profit rose to $ 3,680,921,000 in Q2 2026, producing a gross margin of about 32.6% versus about 31.6% in Q1 2026 and about 31.4% in Q2 2025, and operating income increased to $ 769,164,000 (operating margin ~ 6.8%).
Net income and diluted EPS also expanded to $ 550,315,000 and $ 2.48 in Q2 2026, respectively, from $ 444,127,000 and $ 2.00 in Q1 2026 and $ 411,426,000 and $ 1.86 in Q2 2025. Point-in-time shares outstanding were roughly stable around 220.6 million and cash and cash equivalents rose to $ 1,589,590,000 as of 2026-07-31. Filings and news highlight operational risks (competition, real estate project execution, inventory/shrinkage, technology modernization, and leverage and covenant exposure), a new Instacart same-day delivery rollout across thousands of stores, institutional holdings of $ 25.29B (1,141 holders) with BlackRock at $ 2.64B, an insider sale of $ 733k on 2026-09-03, and valuation metrics including P/E (TTM) 16.38, EV/EBITDA (TTM) 8.9 and price-to-FFO/FCF 25.83; the valuation model implies an FCF growth rate of 15.33% priced in.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
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Revenue for fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-05-02 to 2026-07-31, 3mo) was $11,290,378,000, up from $10,786,965,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-31 to 2026-05-01, 3mo) and up from $10,727,737,000 in fiscal Q2 2025 (2025-05-03 to 2025-08-01, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001104659-26-101932Gross profit expanded to $3,680,921,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 from $3,413,047,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 and $3,361,668,000 in fiscal Q2 2025, producing a gross margin of about 32.6% in fiscal Q2 2026 versus about 31.6% in fiscal Q1 2026 and about 31.4% in fiscal Q2 2025 (gross profit divided by revenue for each quarter).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001104659-26-101932Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full: its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet; its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
A Form 4 was filed on 2026-09-03.
4 filed 2026-09-03The 10-K filed 2026-03-20 added a risk noting that "Competition is intense, and is expected to continue to be so, with certain competitors reducing their store locations while others enter or increase their presence in our geographic and product markets (including through the expansion of availability of delivery services) and expand availability of mobile, web-based and other digital technologies to facilitate a more convenient and competitive online and in-store shopping experience. We currently do not offer traditional online shopping to a significant degree and have seen a greater willingness of our customers to adopt online shopping genera",
10-K filed 2026-03-20Reads the signal panel above (momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta) and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
No computed signal history for this symbol yet — signals need roughly 70 trading days of price history.
Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
Institutional 13F-reported holdings total "$25.29B" as of 2026-06-30, with 1,141 holders reported and a quarter-over-quarter value change of 84.7%.
13F holdings · 1141 filers · as of 2026-06-30BlackRock, Inc. is listed among the top holders with a reported value of "$2.64B" (13F data as of 2026-06-30).
13F holdings · 1141 filers · as of 2026-06-30Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Several headlines report a partnership to roll out same-day delivery of Dollar General items via Instacart, initially piloted in about 7,000 stores in six states and planned to expand toward roughly 20,000 locations.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-25Coverage also describes the same-day delivery rollout as a nationwide convenience push for Dollar General's U.S. store network through an agreement with Instacart.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-24Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Kathleen A. Reardon (EVP & Chief People Officer) sold 5,578 shares for a reported value of "$733k" on 2026-09-03.
Form 4 · REARDON KATHLEEN A (EVP & Chief People Officer) · $733k sold · 2026-09-03The filing for the 2026-09-03 transaction does not indicate a trading plan (the transaction's "trading_plan" field is null).
Form 4 · REARDON KATHLEEN A (EVP & Chief People Officer) · $733k sold · 2026-09-03Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The model reports the implied free cash flow (FCF) growth rate that today's price would justify as 15.33%.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice-to-FFO/FCF (price to trailing twelve months FCF) is 25.83, with trailing twelve months FCF of $1,070,615,000 and FCF per share of $4.8334.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
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The company’s recent quarterly filings show sequential and year-over-year revenue growth, expanding gross and operating margins, and higher net income and diluted EPS, all from the SEC-sourced quarterly results (fundamentals-0 through fundamentals-3). Cash on the balance sheet has increased quarter-to-quarter (fundamentals-5), and large institutional ownership with a marked quarter-over-quarter value increase supports market investor interest (ownership-0, ownership-1). News coverage documents a sizable same-day delivery rollout via Instacart and positive analyst commentary/upgrades that frame operational initiatives as a recovery catalyst (news-0, news-1, news-3, news-4). The negative 10-K risk disclosures and insider sales are clearly documented (filings-1 through filings-5; insider-0 through insider-3) but are disclosed risks or limited insider activity rather than direct counter-evidence to the reported improvements; some prior risk language was also removed or reworded between the 2025 and 2026 10-Ks (filings-6), which affects the strength of the negative framing.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.33
32 surviving claims rest on 15 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 22% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The read rests on a moderate breadth of sources (15) but a relatively concentrated analyst influence (one analyst accounts for ~22% of surviving claims), and every desk-flagged point survived review — all of which raises the chance that any hidden bias or error in the dominant analyst or in the desk’s process could shift conclusions. In short, the evidence set is informative but not highly robust; treat the synthesis as useful background that warrants cross-checking against new filings or independent confirmations.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
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13 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer+0.8 to the score
5 documents· 4 cited
SEC filing documents
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Read by Oakes−0.7 to the score
3 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
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Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
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Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 filing
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state, with stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.8 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
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1 record· 0 cited
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