Is it safe?
Can DG take a bad year?
Dollar General carries $2.98B of net debt at 0.85× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.98B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.85×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.59× 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
- 0.49×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.57B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.59B
- Net debt
- $2.98B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.52B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.44B
- Debt / equity
- 0.49×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.30×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 43%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −73%
- Below its 52-week high
- 18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Consumer Defensive
Ranks #25 of 110 by Smart Score