DG - Dollar General Corporation
Dollar General Corporation, a discount retailer, provides various merchandise products in the southern, southwestern, Midwestern, and eastern United States. It offers consumable products, including paper and cleaning products, such as paper towels, bath tissues, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, disinfectants, and laundry products; packaged food comprising cereals, pasta, canned soups, fruits and vegetables, condiments, spices, sugar, and flour; and perishables that include milk, eggs, bread, refrigerated and frozen food, beer, and wine. The company's consumable products also comprise snacks, such as candies, cookies, crackers, salty snacks, and carbonated beverages; health and beauty products, including over-the-counter medicines and personal care products, such as soaps, body washes, shampoos, cosmetics, and dental hygiene and foot care products; pet supplies and pet food; and tobacco products.
As of May 15, 2026: spot at $103.09, ATM IV 55.3%, max pain $120.00, net GEX -$3.5M.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Discount Stores
- Market Cap
- $22.41B
- P/E Ratio
- 14.81
- Beta
- 0.28
- 52-Week Range
- 86.25-158.23
- Dividend Yield
- $2.36
- CEO
- Todd J. Vasos
- Employees
- 194,200
- IPO Date
- Nov 13, 2009
- Exchange
- NYSE
What DG Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 100.0% signals elevated pricing relative to the 1-year history, conditions that typically favor premium-selling structures (credit spreads, iron condors, covered calls); negative net gamma exposure (-$3.5M) means dealers hedge with trend, amplifying realized volatility and accelerating directional moves; the 25-delta skew (0.034) prices calls richer than puts, often reflecting upside speculation or squeeze risk.
What This Page Covers
The DG overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked DG overview questions
- What is DG?
- DG is the ticker symbol for Dollar General Corporation, a listed security. Dollar General Corporation, a discount retailer, provides various merchandise products in the southern, southwestern, Midwestern, and eastern United States. It offers consumable products, including paper and cleaning products, such as paper towels, bath tissues, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, disinfectants, and laundry products; packaged food comprising cereals, pasta, canned soups, fruits and vegetables, condiments, spices, sugar, and flour; and perishables that include milk, eggs, bread, refrigerated and frozen food, beer, and wine. Listed on NYSE. DG is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the DG options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 15, 2026, the DG options snapshot shows spot at $103.09, ATM IV 55.3%, IV rank 100.0%, max pain $120.00, net GEX -$3.5M, expected move 15.84%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are DG's key statistics?
- Dollar General Corporation (DG) carries a market capitalization of $22.41B, trailing P/E ratio of 14.81, beta of 0.28 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 86.25-158.23. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does DG belong to?
- Dollar General Corporation operates in the Consumer Defensive sector, in the Discount Stores industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare DG's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the DG data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 15, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).