Growth Metrics

Dollar General (DG) EBT Margin (2016 - 2026)

Dollar General filings provide 17 years of EBT Margin readings, the most recent being 5.0% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, EBT Margin rose 278.0% to 5.0% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Jan 2026 was 4.6%, a 105.0% increase, with the full-year FY2026 number at 4.6%, up 105.0% from a year prior.
  • EBT Margin hit 5.0% in Q1 2026 for Dollar General, up from 3.47% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, EBT Margin ranged from a high of 9.23% in Q3 2022 to a low of 2.22% in Q1 2025.
  • Median EBT Margin over the past 5 years was 5.01% (2025), compared with a mean of 5.66%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBT Margin: plummeted -358bps in 2023 and later soared 278bps in 2026.
  • Dollar General's EBT Margin stood at 7.2% in 2022, then crashed by -50bps to 3.62% in 2023, then plummeted by -31bps to 2.51% in 2024, then surged by 38bps to 3.47% in 2025, then soared by 44bps to 5.0% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for EBT Margin were 5.0% (Q1 2026), 3.47% (Q4 2025), and 5.01% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.