Dollar General Corporation (DG): Today's Featured Services Laggard

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Dollar General Corporation (DG) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, Dollar General Corporation fell 79 cents (-1.6%) to $49.85 on average volume. Throughout the day, three million shares of Dollar General Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.2 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $49.80-$50.67 after having opened the day at $50.66 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $50.64. Other companies within the Services sector that declined today were: Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG), down 39%, Pandora Media (P), down 16.7%, Infoblox (BLOX), down 11.3%, and Pointer Telocation (PNTR), down 10.8%.

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Dollar General Corporation operates as a discount retailer primarily in the southern, southwestern, midwestern, and eastern United States. Dollar General Corporation has a market cap of $16.97 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.6, below the average retail industry P/E ratio of 21.3 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 23.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Dollar General Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Dollar General Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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On the positive front, iParty Corporation (IPT), up 22.2%, Inuvo (INUV), up 17.8%, Seanergy Maritime Holdings (SHIP), up 16.9%, and Digital Cinema Destinations (DCIN), up 13.2%, were all gainers within the services sector with Carnival Corporation (CCL) being today's featured services sector leader.

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