Brady Corp (BRC) Operating Margin (2009 - 2026)
Brady (BRC) reported Operating Margin of 13.76% for fiscal Q4 2026 (quarter ended Jul 31, 2026), down 1.16 percentage points from 14.92% a year earlier and down 3.06 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Brady Corp (BRC) Operating Margin (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2026 (ended Jul 31, 2026), Brady posted Operating Margin of 15.86%, up 0.22 percentage points from FY2025.
- Operating Margin has a five-year change of +1.26 percentage points (FY2021 to FY2026).
- By fiscal year, Operating Margin came in at 15.63% in FY2025 (-2.51 pp), 18.15% in FY2024 (+1.24 pp), 16.91% in FY2023 (+2.09 pp) and 14.82% in FY2022 (+0.22 pp).
- The fiscal Q4 2026 figure ranks as the lowest quarterly Operating Margin since fiscal Q2 2022.
- Year over year, Operating Margin gained in two of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -1.12 percentage points.
- The high point for year-over-year Operating Margin in five years was fiscal Q3 2023 (a gain of 3.07 percentage points); the low point was fiscal Q4 2025 (a drop of 4.36 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, the three fiscal quarters before Q4 2026 came in at 16.82% (Q3 2026), 16.19% (Q2 2026) and 16.77% (Q1 2026).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 13.76% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | 16.82% |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 16.19% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 16.77% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 14.92% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 17.56% |
| Jan 31, 2025 | 14.36% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 15.63% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 19.28% |
| Apr 30, 2024 | 18.50% |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 16.71% |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 17.99% |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 17.94% |
| Apr 30, 2023 | 18.69% |
| Jan 31, 2023 | 14.95% |
| Oct 31, 2022 | 15.93% |
| Jul 31, 2022 | 16.33% |
| Apr 30, 2022 | 15.62% |
| Jan 31, 2022 | 13.48% |
| Oct 31, 2021 | 13.79% |
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Brady Corp Operating Margin API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-margin&ticker=BRC&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "operating-margin", "ticker": "BRC", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-margin&ticker=BRC&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();