secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     DOLLAR GENERAL CORP (DG)
CIK:        0000029534
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-08-27T10:57:04+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-101918
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Dollar General Q2 EPS $2.48 (+33%) beats; raises FY26 EPS guidance to $7.80-8.00
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- Net sales +5.2% to $11.3B; same-store sales +3.5%, fifth straight quarter of customer traffic growth.
- Operating profit +29.2% to $769.2M; diluted EPS $2.48 vs $1.86, includes ~$0.25 tariff refund benefit.
- Raises FY26 EPS guidance to $7.80-8.00 (prev $7.20-7.45); net sales growth 4.0-4.3% (prev 3.7-4.2%).
- Declares $0.59/share quarterly dividend payable Oct 20 to record Oct 6; plans up to $700M share repurchases.
- Opened 125 US stores in Q2; FY26 capex guidance $1.4-1.5B; inventories flat at $6.6B.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29534/000110465926101918/0001104659-26-101918-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29534/000110465926101918/tm2623914d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-101918

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