India, Dec. 5 -- While reporting financial results for the third quarter on Thursday, Dollar General Corp. (DG) raised its earnings, adjusted earnings and sales growth guidance for the full-year 2019, based on the performance through the first three quarters of 2019 and outlook for the fourth quarter.
For the third quarter, the company reported same-store sales growth of 4.6 percent, driven by increases in both average transaction amount and customer traffic. It included growth in the consumables, seasonal, home, and apparel categories.
For fiscal 2019, the company now projects earnings in a range of $6.46 to $6.56 per share and adjusted earnings in a range of $6.55 to $6.65 per share on net sales growth in the low 8 percent range, with s...