Best Buy (BBY) Operating Margin (2009 - 2026)

Best Buy has disclosed Operating Margin across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 4.14% for Q2 2026.

• In Q2 2026, Operating Margin rose 164.0% year-over-year to 4.14%; the TTM figure through May 2026 stood at 3.68% (up 86.0% YoY), while the FY2026 annual figure was 3.33%, up 29.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin fell to 4.14% in Q2 2026, from 5.22% in the prior quarter.
• Over the last five years, Operating Margin for BBY reached as high as 5.22% in Q1 2026 and fell as low as 5.58% in Q1 2023.
• The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 3.61% (2023), against an average of 3.03%.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2023 — Operating Margin sank 1049 bps — and 2024, when it soared 941 bps.
• A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 3.45% in 2022, then advanced by 5 bps to 3.63% in 2023, then grew by 2 bps to 3.71% in 2024, then tumbled by 45 bps to 2.05% in 2025, then jumped by 102 bps to 4.14% in 2026.
• According to Business Quant data, Operating Margin over the past three periods registered 4.14%, 5.22%, and 2.05% for Q2 2026, Q1 2026, and Q4 2025 respectively.