Dollar General (DG) Q4 Earnings: What To Expect

Discount retailer Dollar General (NYSE:DG) will be reporting results this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what to look for.

Dollar General met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $10.65 billion, up 4.6% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Dollar General’s revenue to grow 4.9% year on year, in line with the 4.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Dollar General rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.

Looking at Dollar General’s peers in the non-discretionary retail segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Target’s revenues decreased 1.5% year on year, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Sprouts reported revenues up 7.6%, in line with consensus estimates. Target traded up 6.1% following the results while Sprouts’s stock price was unchanged.

Read our full analysis of Target’s results here and Sprouts’s results here.

Questions about potential tariffs and corporate tax changes have caused much volatility in 2025. While some of the non-discretionary retail stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 9.3% on average over the last month. Dollar General’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $148.32 (compared to the current share price of $147.28).

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