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Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (BW) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026)

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises filings provide 13 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 0.77% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin rose 47.0% to 0.77% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 2.92%, a 447.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 3.53%, up 462.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 0.77% in Q1 2026 for Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, down from 4.23% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 21.27% in Q4 2023 to a low of 141.76% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 1.03% (2024), compared with a mean of 6.22%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: crashed -14640bps in 2022 and later surged 16303bps in 2023.
  • Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' Operating Margin stood at 141.76% in 2022, then surged by 115bps to 21.27% in 2023, then tumbled by -115bps to 3.26% in 2024, then soared by 230bps to 4.23% in 2025, then plummeted by -118bps to 0.77% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 0.77% (Q1 2026), 4.23% (Q4 2025), and 4.36% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.