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Barnes & Noble Education (BNED) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026)

Barnes & Noble Education filings provide 13 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 3.1% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 141.0% to 3.1% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Jan 2026 was 1.25%, a 152.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.99%, up 335.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 3.1% in Q1 2026 for Barnes & Noble Education, down from 6.33% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 8.42% in Q4 2024 to a low of 17.91% in Q3 2022.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 4.05% (2025), compared with a mean of 4.26%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: surged 2204bps in 2022 and later plummeted -973bps in 2023.
  • Barnes & Noble Education's Operating Margin stood at 4.7% in 2022, then surged by 41bps to 6.6% in 2023, then grew by 28bps to 8.42% in 2024, then decreased by -25bps to 6.33% in 2025, then plummeted by -51bps to 3.1% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 3.1% (Q1 2026), 6.33% (Q4 2025), and 8.45% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.