Lee Enterprises (LEE) Debt Ratio (2010 - 2026)

Lee Enterprises (LEE) has 17 years of Debt Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.74 in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Debt Ratio rose 1.3% year-over-year to 0.74; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.74 (up 1.3% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.76, up 10.19% from the prior year.
• Debt Ratio for Q1 2026 stood at 0.74, down from 0.77 in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Debt Ratio topped out at 0.77 in Q4 2025 and bottomed at 0.58 in Q1 2022.
• The 5-year median for Debt Ratio is 0.66 (2024), against an average of 0.67.
• Peak annual rise in Debt Ratio reached 11.25% in 2022, while the deepest fall reached 2.66% in 2022.
• A 5-year view of Debt Ratio shows it stood at 0.62 in 2022, then advanced by 4.5% to 0.65 in 2023, then gained by 8.98% to 0.7 in 2024, then gained by 9.1% to 0.77 in 2025, then dropped by 4.22% to 0.74 in 2026.
• The last three Debt Ratio figures came in at 0.74 (Q1 2026), 0.77 (Q4 2025), and 0.76 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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