DG options flow: unusual options activity in Dollar General Corp.

Updated 28 September 2026, 09:54 ET

Over the last week the tape recorded 11 unusual options prints in Dollar General Corp. (DG), $590K of tracked premium, close to even between bullish and bearish premium. Bullish premium was $265K against $255K bearish; $249K went into calls and $342K into puts, a put call ratio of 1.37. The largest print was $122K of DG 15 Jan 2027 $120 puts on 22 September 2026, executed at bid. The last session with prints, 25 September 2026, added 4 prints and $156K of premium. DG closed at $124.84 on 25 September 2026, up 1.9%.

This week's unusual flow

Prints from 22 September 2026 to 25 September 2026, 4 sessions. Delayed tier: every print is shown twenty minutes after it executed, and the page is rebuilt after each session.

Net premium is bullish minus bearish premium. The put call ratio is put premium divided by call premium, weighted by money rather than by contract count. Sweeps is the share of prints executed across several exchanges at once. Read the guide: Reading the Pulse.

Largest prints of the week

Size above open interest means the trade opened a position larger than everything that existed in the contract the night before. Above ask and below bid are the most aggressive executions. Read the guide: Size versus open interest.

Where the money is aimed

The most premium, $212K, is aimed at the 15 Jan 2027 expiry; the nearest expiry with unusual prints is 25 Sep 2026.

A print in a contract expiring this week is a view about the next few days, often about a known event; a print months out is a different kind of statement. Read the guide: 0DTE options flow.

The last session, 25 September 2026

Every print in DG with its full detail, the live tape, one tap filters and saved screeners: open DG in Options Sentiment Screener.

Price

The live quote and the price chart sit beside the ticker's flow in the app: open DG in Options Sentiment Screener.

Analysts

The most recent analyst targets on file, from 16 firms, have a median of $140, 12.1% above the last close. The last 90 days brought 1 upgrade.

Calls bought at a strike above the average target are a bet that the analysts are too cautious; puts far below the price in a name they like are protection or a strong disagreement. Read the guide: Reading one ticker's flow.

About Dollar General Corp.

Exchange

NYSE

Sector

Consumer Staples

Industry

Retail

Headquarters

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tennessee

Website

dollargeneral.com

Dollar General Corporation provides various merchandise products in the southern, southwestern, Midwestern, and eastern United States. It offers consumable products, including paper and cleaning products, such as paper towels, paper dinnerware, trash and storage bags, disinfectants, and laundry products. As of February 25, 2022, it operated 18,190 stores in 47 states.

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Learn

• What unusual options activity means
• Reading one ticker's flow
• Sweeps, blocks and where a trade printed
• Size versus open interest
• Bullish or bearish, how a print's sentiment is inferred
• The conviction score and whale prints