Growth Metrics

Barrett Business Services (BBSI) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Barrett Business Services (BBSI) has 16 years of Operating Margin data on record, last reported at 8.92% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin fell 95.0% year-over-year to 8.92%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 1.21%, down 9.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.21%, 9.0% down from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 8.92% in Q4 2025 per BBSI's latest filing, down from 7.77% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 8.81% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 10.11% in Q4 2023.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 2.78%, with a median of 6.32% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: surged 292bps in 2022, then crashed -1557bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 5.17% in 2021, then rose by 6bps to 5.46% in 2022, then crashed by -285bps to 10.11% in 2023, then grew by 21bps to 7.97% in 2024, then decreased by -12bps to 8.92% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Margin were 8.92% in Q4 2025, 7.77% in Q3 2025, and 7.49% in Q2 2025.