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Dollar General is Among the Companies in the General Merchandise Stores Industry With the Lowest PEG Ratio (DG, DLTR, BIG, TGT, FDO)
[March 20, 2013]

Dollar General is Among the Companies in the General Merchandise Stores Industry With the Lowest PEG Ratio (DG, DLTR, BIG, TGT, FDO)


Mar 20, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the General Merchandise Stores industry with the lowest price to earnings to growth (PEG) ratios. PEG is valuable in assessing the tradeoff between the price of a stock and expected growth. Generally, the lower the PEG, the better.



Dollar General ranks lowest with a a PEG ratio of 0.98. Following is Dollar Tree with a a PEG ratio of 1.00. Big Lots ranks third lowest with a a PEG ratio of 1.15.

Target follows with a a PEG ratio of 1.21, and Family Dollar Stores rounds out the bottom five with a a PEG ratio of 1.35.


SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of Family Dollar Stores on December 12th, 2012 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $65.83. Since that call, shares of Family Dollar Stores have fallen 11.7%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time.

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