Growth Metrics

Dollar General (DG) Times Interest Earned (2016 - 2024)

Dollar General (DG) has disclosed Times Interest Earned for 15 consecutive years, with $7.52 as the latest value for Q1 2024.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2024, Times Interest Earned fell 39.74% year-over-year to $7.52, compared with a TTM value of $25.93 through Nov 2024, up 200.49%, and an annual FY2024 reading of $7.49, down 52.48% over the prior year.
  • Times Interest Earned was $7.52 for Q1 2024 at Dollar General, up from $5.27 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Times Interest Earned topped out at $28.43 in Q2 2020 and bottomed at -$48.86 in Q1 2021.
  • Average Times Interest Earned over 5 years is $5.43, with a median of $13.7 recorded in 2022.
  • The sharpest move saw Times Interest Earned crashed 271.8% in 2020, then soared 126.97% in 2023.
  • Year by year, Times Interest Earned stood at $19.19 in 2020, then fell by 11.49% to $16.98 in 2021, then decreased by 19.3% to $13.7 in 2022, then plummeted by 61.56% to $5.27 in 2023, then surged by 42.69% to $7.52 in 2024.
  • Business Quant data shows Times Interest Earned for DG at $7.52 in Q1 2024, $5.27 in Q4 2023, and $8.21 in Q3 2023.