Interest burden
The share of derived operating profit left after interest - the financing-cost term of the extended DuPont decomposition.
Formula
Derived pre-tax income ÷ (derived pre-tax income + |interest expense|), same period end
Served as: annual · derived. Annual and quarterly observations are never mixed unlabeled.
Where the inputs come from
- NetIncomeLoss + IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit (derived pre-tax income)
- InterestExpense
Listed highest priority first. Every served figure carries its filing, fiscal period and accession; open any value on the financials page to see them.
How to compare it honestly
Read alongside interest coverage and the debt trend; a falling burden ratio means financing costs are eating more of operating profit.
When it is not served
Not computed when interest expense or income tax is untagged at the period end (stale series are named with their last tagged year) or when the derived base is not positive.
Missing data is missing evidence: it is never shown as zero and never treated as a conclusion.
What it cannot tell you
Both terms build on the derived pre-tax proxy; capitalized interest and finance-lease costs may sit outside the tagged interest line.
Questions worth asking next
- Did the burden move because of debt levels or because rates repriced?
- How does the tagged interest line compare with the debt footnote's total cost?
Research prompts, not recommendations.
See it computed from filings
Related in returns: ROE · ROA · ROIC · ROCE · ROE (DuPont) · Asset turnover · Equity multiplier · Tax burden
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