Dollar Stores Down Sharply On Dollar General Earnings Miss

Dollar Tree DLTR, Family Dollar FDO and Ninety Nine Cents Stores NDN are down sharply today, down around 2% as their largest competitor Dollar General DG reported earnings this morning that missed Wall Street estimates. At last check, Dollar General was off 9% to $31.90, a loss of $3.17 on 6.8 million shares after the company missed earnings estimates by 2 cents.