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

Dollar General filings provide 17 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 10.86% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 1371.0% to 10.86% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Jan 2026 was 0.97%, a 325.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2026 number at 0.97%, down 325.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 10.86% in Q1 2026 for Dollar General, down from 4.0% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 9.69% in Q3 2022 to a low of 17.06% in Q1 2023.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 5.52% (2025), compared with a mean of 3.8%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: plummeted -2627bps in 2023 and later soared 2294bps in 2024.
  • Dollar General's Operating Margin stood at 7.77% in 2022, then tumbled by -42bps to 4.47% in 2023, then dropped by -29bps to 3.18% in 2024, then grew by 26bps to 4.0% in 2025, then tumbled by -372bps to 10.86% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 10.86% (Q1 2026), 4.0% (Q4 2025), and 5.55% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.