Accel Entertainment (ACEL) Operating Margin (2017 - 2026)

Accel Entertainment (ACEL) has 10 years of Operating Margin data on file, last reported at 7.7% in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Operating Margin fell 31.0% year-over-year to 7.7%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 8.02% (up 74.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 8.1%, up 72.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 7.7%, down from 8.69% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 11.99% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 6.55% in Q4 2024.
• The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 8.57% (2023), against an average of 8.64%.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Operating Margin surged 427 bps; it then sank 263 bps in 2024.
• A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 9.02% in 2022, then dropped by 5 bps to 8.57% in 2023, then slipped by 24 bps to 6.55% in 2024, then surged by 33 bps to 8.69% in 2025, then retreated by 11 bps to 7.7% in 2026.
• The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 7.7% (Q1 2026), 8.69% (Q4 2025), and 7.69% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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