Dollar General Corporation (DG) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning. My name is Rob, and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Dollar General first quarter 2026 earnings call. Today is Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. This call is being recorded. Instructions for listening to the replay of the call are available in the company's earnings press release issued this morning. Now I'd like to turn the conference over to Mr. Kevin Walker, Vice President of Investor Relations. Kevin, you may begin your conference. Thank you, and good morning, everyone. On the call with me today are Todd Bezos, our CEO, and Donnie Lau, our CFO. After our prepared remarks, we'll open the call up for your questions, and Emily Taylor, our Chief Operating Officer, will join us for the Q&A session. To allow us to address as many questions as possible in the queue, please limit yourself to one question. Our earnings release issued today can be found on our website at investor.dollargeneral.com under News and Events. Let me caution you that today's comments include forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as statements about our financial guidance, long-term financial framework, strategy, initiatives, plans, goals, priorities, opportunities, expectations, or beliefs about future matters, and other statements that are not limited to historical fact. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations and projections. These factors include, but are not limited to, those identified in our earnings release issued this morning, under risk factors in our 2025 Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2026, and any later filed...