Dollar General

discount variety store chain in the USA
Organization business Q145168
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 10 annual filings
Revenue
$42.72B
▲ 5.2% YoY FY2026
Net Income
$1.51B
▲ 34.4% YoY FY2026
Assets
$30.96B
▼ 0.5% YoY FY2026
EPS (diluted)
$6.85
▲ 34.1% YoY FY2026
$0.00$11.75B$23.50B$35.25B$47.00B FY2017: $21.99B · NI $1.25B (5.7% margin)FY2018: $23.47B · NI $1.54B (6.6% margin)FY2019: $25.63B · NI $1.59B (6.2% margin)FY2020: $27.75B · NI $1.71B (6.2% margin)FY2021: $33.75B · NI $2.66B (7.9% margin)FY2022: $34.22B · NI $2.40B (7.0% margin)FY2023: $37.84B · NI $2.42B (6.4% margin)FY2024: $38.69B · NI $1.66B (4.3% margin)FY2025: $40.61B · NI $1.13B (2.8% margin)FY2026: $42.72B · NI $1.51B (3.5% margin) '17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2026-01-30 · accession 0001104659-26-032325

Dollar General

Summary

Dollar General is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,266 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dollar General is in the country of United States[3].
  • Dollar General is in the country of US[4].
  • Dollar General's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Dollar General's instance of is recorded as enterprise[6].
  • Dollar General's instance of is recorded as public company[7].
  • Dollar General's instance of is recorded as variety store chain[8].
  • Dollar General's instance of is recorded as discount store[9].
  • Dollar General's instance of is recorded as retail chain[10].
  • Dollar General's headquarters location is recorded as Goodlettsville[11].
  • Dollar General is part of S&P 500[12].
  • Dollar General's Commons category is recorded as Dollar General[13].
  • Dollar General's stock exchange is recorded as New York Stock Exchange[14].
  • Dollar General's industry is recorded as retail[15].
  • January 1, 1939 marks the founding of Dollar General[16].
  • 1998-05-29 marks the founding of Dollar General[17].
  • Dollar General's official website is recorded as https://www.dollargeneral.com/[18].
  • Dollar General's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dollar General[19].
  • Dollar General's legal form is recorded as Q130264292[20].
  • Dollar General's legal form is recorded as QJ9F[21].
  • Dollar General's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+84513'}[22].
  • Dollar General's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+79239'}[23].
  • Dollar General's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+5730'}[24].
  • Dollar General's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+86511'}[25].
  • Dollar General's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+89382'}[26].
  • Dollar General's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+7210'}[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): OPX52SQVOZI8IVSWYU66[28]

  • Registered legal name: Dollar General Corporation[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-TN[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): QJ9F[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[34]

  • Entity created: 1998-05-29[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-06-06[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-04-06[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-04-22[38]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000636[40]

  • Authority entity ID: 000351611[41]

  • Other names: it Corporation-Tn[42]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[43]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include January 1, 1939[16] and 1998-05-29[17].

Identity

Dollar General is part of S&P 500[12].

Operations

Dollar General's headquarters location is recorded as Goodlettsville[11].

Industry

Dollar General's industry is recorded as retail[15].

Ownership

Dollar General's stock exchange is recorded as New York Stock Exchange[14].

Why It Matters

Dollar General ranks in the top 1% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,266 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Polygon.io. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [43] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Part of → S&P 500
    Stock exchange → —
    Stock exchange → New York Stock Exchange
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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