Dollar General DG Interest coverage
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Dollar General’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Dollar General’s 10-Q, filed August 29, 2024, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Dollar General's interest coverage?
- Dollar General (DG) reported interest coverage of 111.9× in Q2 2024.
- How has Dollar General's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
- Dollar General's interest coverage increased by 967.7% year-over-year, from 10.5× to 111.9×.
- What is the long-term trend for Dollar General's interest coverage?
- Over 2 years (2021 to 2023), Dollar General's interest coverage has grown at a -31.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 84.8× to 39.6×.
- What does interest coverage mean?
- How many times the company's operating profit covers its interest bill.
- How do you interpret interest coverage?
- Higher is safer; below ~2× is a warning that earnings provide little cushion against the debt burden. Debt-free companies have no interest expense and the ratio is left blank.
- How does interest coverage compare across companies?
- Comparable across leveraged non-financials; less relevant for net-cash companies with negligible interest.