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Dollar General 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate

: 8.60% (As of Oct. 2020)
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Dollar General's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Oct. 2020 was $0.36.

NYSE:DG' s 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 8.6   Med: 9.1   Max: 9.6
Current: 8.6
8.6
9.6

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Dollar General was 9.60% per year. The lowest was 8.60% per year. And the median was 9.10% per year.

NYSE:DG's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate is ranked higher than
64% of the 138 Companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry.

( Industry Median: 4.75 vs. NYSE:DG: 8.60 )

During the past 12 months, Dollar General's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 8.60% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

Dollar General's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Oct. 2020 was 0.16. As of today, Dollar General's Dividend Yield % is 0.81%.

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Competitive Comparison
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap.

Dollar General 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution

* The bar in red indicates where Dollar General's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate falls into.


Dollar General 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Calculation

This is the average annual rate that a company has been raising its dividends. The growth rate is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

Dollar General  (NYSE:DG) 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

Dollar General's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2020 is calculated as

Dividend Payout Ratio=Dividends per Share (Q: Oct. 2020 )/ EPS without NRI (Q: Oct. 2020 )
=0.36/ 2.31
=0.16

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Dollar General was 0.23. The lowest was 0.14. And the median was 0.19.

2. Dividend Yield % measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Dollar General Recent Full-Year Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.3602021-01-042021-01-052021-01-19Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.3602020-10-052020-10-062020-10-20Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.3602020-07-062020-07-072020-07-21Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.3602020-04-062020-04-072020-04-21Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000

* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

Dollar General's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Dividend Yield %=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=1.44/178.710000
=0.81 %

Current Share Price is $178.710000.
Dollar General's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $1.44.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Dollar General was 1.47%. The lowest was 0.28%. And the median was 1.00%.

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are in their local exchange's currency.

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