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SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC.: interest expense

Interest expense for SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.

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What this measure means

Borrowing costs recognized as interest expense. This is distinct from cash interest paid and may not include every capitalized borrowing cost.

Exact concept: us-gaap:InterestExpense. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2014-01-01 to 2018-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-20.

This selected history ends more than two years before capture. Do not treat its final value as a current balance or current annual result. More recent filings may use another accounting tag; inspect the filings before drawing conclusions about the company.

Selected filing history

Interest expense in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
2018-01-012018-12-31500,000USD2019-02-2110-K · 0001628280-19-001674
2017-01-012017-12-31600,000USD2018-02-2810-K · 0001564590-18-003800
2016-01-012016-12-311,000,000USD2017-02-2710-K · 0001564590-17-002476
2015-01-012015-12-311,400,000USD2016-02-2610-K · 0001564590-16-013579
2014-01-012014-12-312,000,000USD2015-02-2710-K · 0001564590-15-001112

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Entity
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC. / CIK 0001043509
Captured
2026-09-20T05:16:22.386Z
SEC response SHA-256
8274005e2ecfe54b7d31184ef2fbcdf63a58bb4b7caaf68c1309cfe6ee665205

Current SEC company facts · Download the original response snapshot (gzip) · Download the selected JSON

Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

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Read the published dataset with Python
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0001043509.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))