Dollar General Q1 2026 earnings beat, raises full-year EPS forecast
Key takeaways
- At $2.00 per diluted share, quarterly earnings cleared the $1.89 analyst consensus tracked by The Wall Street Journal, representing a 12.4% improvement over the $1.78 reported in the same quarter a year ago.
- Net sales rose 3.4% to $10.79 billion, driven by new store openings and same-store sales growth of 2.0%.
- Any benefits that might eventually flow from tariff refund payments were excluded from that revised outlook.
Dollar General Q1 2026 earnings beat, raises full-year EPS forecast Quartz · Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images Cris Tolomia Tue, June 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM GMT+7 2 min read DG Dollar General raised its full-year profit forecast on Tuesday after posting first-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street expectations, as consumers continued turning to the discount retailer for low-cost essentials.
At $2.00 per diluted share, quarterly earnings cleared the $1.89 analyst consensus tracked by The Wall Street Journal, representing a 12.4% improvement over the $1.78 reported in the same quarter a year ago.
Net sales rose 3.4% to $10.79 billion, driven by new store openings and same-store sales growth of 2.0%. Same-store sales growth reflected a 1.4% increase in customer traffic and a 0.5% rise in average transaction amount, the company said. The retailer s bottom line came in at $444.1 million, a gain of roughly $52 million compared with the year-earlier period s $391.9 million.