Dollar General Corporation is a discount retailer. Co. offers merchandise, including consumable items, seasonal items, home products and apparel. Its merchandise includes brands from manufacturers, as well as its own private brand selections with prices at discounts to brands. Its consumables category includes paper and cleaning products, packaged food, perishables, snacks, health and beauty, pet, and tobacco products. Its seasonal products include holiday items, toys, batteries, small electronics, greeting cards, stationery, prepaid phones and accessories, gardening supplies, hardware, automotive and home office supplies. We show 60 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our DG shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute DG market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Dollar General market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Dollar General's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of Dollar General versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Dollar General market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like Dollar General can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Dollar General by allowing them to research the Dollar General market cap history. |
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