Dollar General Corp: retained earnings or deficit

At a glance

Dollar General reported retained earnings or deficit of $4.40 billion at 2026-01-30, up 29.2% from $3.41 billion a year earlier. From 2011 to 2026 it grew at a compound 11.7% a year, from $830.9 million to $4.40 billion. Across the last five reported years it ranged from $1.66 billion (2023-02-03) to $4.40 billion (2026-01-30). That was 14.2% of total assets ($31.0 billion) at the same date.

Computed from the values in the table below, in USD; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Accumulated undistributed earnings or deficit at the reporting date. This balance is not cash available for distribution.

Exact concept: us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit. Each value is a balance at the reporting date, not a flow earned over a year. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2011-01-28 to 2026-01-30. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

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Entity

DOLLAR GENERAL CORP / CIK 0000029534

Captured

2026-09-19 10:53 UTC

SEC response SHA-256

16157a14c6c91f04a8b3e89ccedfc91ee0d5ea6978f8c6ed1d25d8cfe73541cf

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000029534.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))