Is it safe?
Can DG take a bad year?
Dollar General carries $3.22B of net debt at 0.97× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.22B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.97×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.79× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.55
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.52×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.58B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.35B
- Net debt
- $3.22B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.33B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.27B
- Debt / equity
- 0.52×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.37×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 42%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −73%
- Below its 52-week high
- −21%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.