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Dollar General made significant progress on shrink, inventory, and customer growth, raising guidance despite a tough environment—evidence of a strong turnaround. New customers, especially from middle-to-higher income cohorts, are offsetting core customer struggles, making DG more resilient and countercyclical. Financial results are improving with growing sales, better gross margins, and increasing cash flow which they are using to reduce debt.

Dollar General (DG) has been upgraded to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reflecting growing optimism about the company's earnings prospects. This might drive the stock higher in the near term.

Here is how Dollar General (DG) and MONOTARO (MONOY) have performed compared to their sector so far this year.

After reaching multi-year lows in 2024, Dollar General (DG 0.19%) and Dollar Tree (DLTR 1.15%) are staging epic recoveries in 2025.

Investors looking for stocks in the Retail - Discount Stores sector might want to consider either Dollar General (DG) or TJX (TJX). But which of these two stocks is more attractive to value investors?

Shares of retail chain Dollar General (DG -0.33%) dropped 45% in 2023 and 44% in 2024 as investors fretted over rising unemployment, macroeconomic uncertainty from tariffs, and the retailer's own plunging profit margins. In January, it hit rock bottom.

Dollar General (DG -0.33%) has struggled in recent years, as inflationary pressures hurt its lower-income consumer base. However, the stock staged a strong rally following its fiscal first-quarter earnings report.

According to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence, discount retailer Dollar General's (DG -0.32%) share price ballooned by almost 17% across the trading week. In retrospect that wasn't surprising, as the company simply crushed it in its latest earnings report, and analysts fell over themselves publishing bullish new takes on its stock.

Here are some of the major companies whose stocks moved on the week's news.