Dollar General closed hundreds of locations after evaluating its store footprint. But there’s an upside

The discount retailer saw a bump in sales for its most recent fiscal year. And despite recent closures, it also has more stores than it did last year.

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Dollar General’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 earnings report shows some successes—though you wouldn’t know that by the reaction of its stock.

Shares of Dollar General Corp (NYSE: DG) fell more than 6% in premarket trading on Thursday following the report’s early-morning release. 

And yet the discount retailer’s financial results include figures such as a 5.9% increase year-over-year (YOY) in quarter-four, with net sales increasing to $10.9 billion. Its 2025 net sales saw a similar jump of 5.2% YOY to $42.7 billion.

Same-store sales also rose 4.3% YOY in the last quarter and 3% YOY for 2025. 

Notably, Dollar General did predict slower growth for 2026. It expects net sales to increase between 3.7% and 4.2% over the year, while it estimates same store sales to grow 2.2% to 2.7%. 

Dollar General store closures

The 2025 report is free of one ominous announcement that loomed over last year’s results: additional store closures. 

In its fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter report, Dollar General announced that it would shutter 96 of its namesake stores and 45 PopShelf locations, a retail chain the company owns.

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