Dollar General’s profit forecast disappoints Wall Street
March 14, 2019
Dollar General forecast fiscal 2019 earnings of between $6.30 and $6.50 a share, below the $6.65 estimate from Refinitiv. The dollar store operator, which posted a same-store sales gain of four percent in the most recent quarter, above the 2.6 percent consensus, saw its share price drop six percent.
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