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Investment Strategies / Falling Knives
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Author: Lear   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: FKA: DG
Date: 09/15/23 3:59 PM
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This has now fallen to about $116. I posted what I think is a good write up on some of the problems plaguing the company in the DG board, which I suspect some here don't follow:

guastywinds.substack.com - Dollar general dg US its a trap

I have some serious reservations about the firm, and should probably know better than to try and predict retail, but a 55% drop from Nov 22 (when CEO Owens took over) builds in a lot of pessimism.

Consider the following back of the envelop assumptions, going forward:


Sales $37,845 (2022 sales, i.e., a likely underestimate)
Op. Margin 8.30% (a return to 2018 op margins, which were a pre-2023 low-point)
Income $3,141
Interest $337 (4 times 2023 2Q interest debt service)
EBT $2,804
Tax Rate 23.0% (2Q came in at 22.9%, 2022 was 22.5%, 2021 was 21.7%)
Tax Expense $645
Net Profit $2,159

Current Price / Share $116.08
Shares Outstanding 220 000 000
Proj./normalized EPS $9.81
Normalized P/E 11.8

If one conservatively multiplies the above earnings by today's multiple of forward projected earnings, i.e., about 15.2 (based on the midpoint of 2023 guidance, $7.60), that's still a price of $149.11, or about 29% from here.

The critical assumption, of course, is that operating margins return to something approximating their previous range in 2017 - 2019 (where they sat at 8.3% - 8.6%, subsequent to a long era of 9%+).

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