Dollar General (DG) Stock Buybacks: 35.4% of Shares Retired Since 2011

Name: Dollar General (DG) shares outstanding since 2010, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 2010 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2010, 340,816,9962026-08-25, 220,616,790

A share bought in 2010

1.5× more of Dollar General today, without buying another share. It was one of 340,816,996 shares then. It is one of 220,616,790 now.

Every filing we read17 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2010	2010-03-22	340,816,996	10-K	cover page
2011	2011-01-28	341,507,000	10-K
2012	2012-03-16	338,091,175	10-K
2013	2013-03-15	327,091,344	10-K
2014	2014-03-13	313,596,983	10-K
2015	2015-03-12	303,415,449	10-K
2016	2016-03-15	286,468,872	10-K
2017	2017-03-17	275,095,294	10-K
2018	2018-03-16	268,741,400	10-K
2019	2019-03-18	259,518,801	10-K
2020	2020-03-12	251,941,312	10-K
2021	2021-03-12	239,264,252	10-K
2022	2022-03-11	228,868,368	10-K
2023	2023-03-22	219,108,477	10-K
2024	2024-03-21	219,671,316	10-K
2025	2025-03-19	219,947,078	10-K
2026	2026-03-18	220,226,320	10-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Dollar General on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

Dollar General buybacks, answered

Is Dollar General buying back its stock?

Only enough to stand still. The share count is roughly flat over the last twelve months, at 220,616,790 as of August 25, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 4.8%.

How many shares has Dollar General bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Dollar General has 120.9 million fewer shares than at its 2011 peak. That is 35.4% of the company.

How many shares does Dollar General have outstanding?

220,616,790 shares, as of August 25, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2011 peak it had 341,507,000.

What do Dollar General's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Dollar General stock in 2011 owns 1.5 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.

How does Dollar General compare with other cannibal stocks?

Dollar General ranks No. 144 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Seaboard (35.6%), United Rentals (35.5%), Bank of America (35.4%), Johnson Controls International (35.3%).

Every answer is computed from Dollar General's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.