Dollar General Stock: Why This Turnaround Buy Could Be a Value Trap

By Jason Hall and Tyler Crowe – Oct 17, 2023 at 5:32AM

NYSE: DG

Dollar General

Market Cap

$31B

Today's Change

(-0.41%) -$0.58

Current Price

$142.07

Price as of April 26, 2024, 4:00 p.m. ET

Expenses and debt are growing faster than revenue and margins. Something has to change.

Retail is hard, and it looked like Dollar General (DG -0.41%) had cracked the code before the past few years upended the profits and sent the stock crashing. Can the company turn it around, or is this a value trap waiting to spring? In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Tyler Crowe take a closer look.

*Stock prices used were from the morning of Oct. 11, 2023. The video was published on Oct. 17, 2023.

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