Growth Metrics

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

Dollar General filings provide 17 years of Net Margin readings, the most recent being 3.91% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Net Margin rose 205.0% to 3.91% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Jan 2026 was 3.54%, a 77.0% increase, with the full-year FY2026 number at 3.54%, up 77.0% from a year prior.
  • Net Margin hit 3.91% in Q1 2026 for Dollar General, up from 2.65% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Net Margin ranged from a high of 7.19% in Q3 2022 to a low of 1.86% in Q1 2025.
  • Median Net Margin over the past 5 years was 3.91% (2026), compared with a mean of 4.41%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Net Margin: tumbled -271bps in 2023 and later skyrocketed 205bps in 2026.
  • Dollar General's Net Margin stood at 5.56% in 2022, then crashed by -49bps to 2.85% in 2023, then crashed by -32bps to 1.93% in 2024, then soared by 38bps to 2.65% in 2025, then soared by 47bps to 3.91% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Net Margin were 3.91% (Q1 2026), 2.65% (Q4 2025), and 3.84% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.