McDonald's MCD Interest coverage
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Where this comes from
Calculated from McDonald's’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: McDonald's’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is McDonald's's interest coverage?
- McDonald's (MCD) reported interest coverage of 7.9× in Q1 2026.
- How has McDonald's's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
- McDonald's's interest coverage increased by 2.7% year-over-year, from 7.7× to 7.9×.
- What is the long-term trend for McDonald's's interest coverage?
- Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), McDonald's's interest coverage has grown at a 5.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 6× to 7.8×.
- 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.