Interest costs rose 10%. The median company paid the same
A panel of 1,519 listed non-financial companies. Interest expense rose 10.1% in the first half of 2026 — and twenty companies produced three quarters of the rise.
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Primary sources used
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) — Federal Funds Effective Rate, series DFFDaily effective rate · half-year averages and cut dates quoted here computed from the full daily series
- SEC XBRL frames API — InterestExpenseNonoperating, CY2026Q2The tag most of this panel uses · 1,283 of 1,519 companies
- SEC XBRL frames API — InterestExpense, CY2026Q2The older tag · 628 companies · one of eight frame calls behind the panel
- SEC company concept API — Alphabet Inc., InterestExpenseNonoperatingSpot-checked against the 10-Q values: $34M, $261M, $533M, $1,278M for the four quarters
- SEC company concept API — Amazon.com, Inc., InterestExpenseNonoperatingSpot-checked against the 10-Q values: $541M, $516M, $800M, $1,314M
- SEC company concept API — The Kraft Heinz Company, InterestExpenseThe negative second quarter discussed in the limitations is in the 10-Q, not an API artefact
6documents, deduplicated. Links go to the original filing, not to a summary.