Dollar Tree Is Selling Family Dollar. But What Does That Mean for Dollar General Investors? [Yahoo! Finance]
Dollar General Corporation (DG)
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Weirdly, the sale could result in competitor Dollar General (NYSE: DG) , still a standalone business, being the big winner from the transaction. One of the ways that a company can destroy shareholder value is by acquiring other businesses that turn out to be worth considerably less than their purchase prices. Some Wall Street insiders cynically call this process "di-worse-ification." Sometimes, this questionable strategy is driven by a CEO who is hell-bent on building an empire, no matter the cost. Other times, companies are simply trying to find new avenues for growth, and their hopeful efforts just don't pan out as well as they expected. When Dollar Tree bought peer Family Dollar for roughly $9 billion in 2015, management's idea was that it could find a way to synergistically operate two discount chains with different approaches: Dollar Tree, with its core concept of selling everything in the store for $1 or less, and Family Dollar, with its approach of basically being a low-cos
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- Dollar General (NYSE:DG) had its price target raised by analysts at Wolfe Research from $141.00 to $159.00. They now have an "outperform" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Dollar General (NYSE:DG) had its price target raised by analysts at Evercore ISI from $130.00 to $135.00. They now have an "in-line" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Dollar General (NYSE:DG) had its price target raised by analysts at Argus from $135.00 to $152.00. They now have a "buy" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Dollar General (NYSE:DG) had its "mixed" rating reaffirmed by analysts at Wells Fargo & Company.MarketBeat
- Dollar General (NYSE:DG) had its price target raised by analysts at Gordon Haskett from $140.00 to $150.00. They now have a "buy" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
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- 12/4/25 - Beat
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Sec Filings
- 12/19/25 - Form 4
- 12/19/25 - Form 144
- 12/18/25 - Form 144
- DG's page on the SEC website