Growth Metrics

Apple (AAPL) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026)

Apple filings provide 18 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 32.28% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin rose 125.0% to 32.28% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 32.64%, a 83.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 31.97%, up 46.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 32.28% in Q1 2026 for Apple, down from 35.37% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 35.37% in Q4 2025 to a low of 27.62% in Q3 2022.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 30.74% (2024), compared with a mean of 30.89%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: plummeted -273bps in 2022 and later surged 302bps in 2023.
  • Apple's Operating Margin stood at 30.74% in 2022, then rose by 10bps to 33.76% in 2023, then grew by 2bps to 34.46% in 2024, then rose by 3bps to 35.37% in 2025, then dropped by -9bps to 32.28% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 32.28% (Q1 2026), 35.37% (Q4 2025), and 31.65% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.