Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW) Operating Margin (2010 - 2026)

Build-A-Bear Workshop has disclosed Operating Margin across 16 years of filings, most recently posting 13.83% for Q1 2026.

• Quarterly Operating Margin fell 434.0% year-over-year to 13.83% in Q1 2026, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Jan 2026 was 12.54% (down 81.0% YoY) and the FY2026 annual result came in at 2.66%, down 18.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin advanced to 13.83% in Q1 2026, from 8.57% in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Operating Margin peaked at 18.18% in Q1 2025 and troughed at 7.6% in Q3 2022.
• A 5-year average of 12.93% and a median of 12.73% in 2024 frame the typical range for Operating Margin.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2022 — Operating Margin surged 397 bps — and 2026, when it slumped 434 bps.
• Tracing BBW's Operating Margin over 5 years: stood at 9.47% in 2022, then decreased by 1 bps to 9.36% in 2023, then climbed by 16 bps to 10.86% in 2024, then decreased by 21 bps to 8.57% in 2025, then jumped by 62 bps to 13.83% in 2026.
• Business Quant data shows BBW's Operating Margin at 13.83% in Q1 2026, 8.57% in Q4 2025, and 12.16% in Q3 2025.