Growth Metrics

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL) EBITDA Margin (2016 - 2026)

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL) has 18 years of EBITDA Margin data on record, last reported at 0.05% in Q1 2026.

  • For Q1 2026, EBITDA Margin fell 301.0% year-over-year to 0.05%; the TTM value through Jan 2026 reached 0.4%, down 152.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.58%, 28.0% up from the prior year.
  • EBITDA Margin reached 0.05% in Q1 2026 per CBRL's latest filing, up from 4.11% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBITDA Margin topped out at 4.36% in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 10.83% in Q3 2022.
  • Average EBITDA Margin over 5 years is 0.38%, with a median of 1.81% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for EBITDA Margin: plummeted -1882bps in 2022, then surged 937bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of EBITDA Margin shows it stood at 2.81% in 2022, then plummeted by -51bps to 1.39% in 2023, then plummeted by -40bps to 0.84% in 2024, then plummeted by -592bps to 4.11% in 2025, then surged by 101bps to 0.05% in 2026.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for EBITDA Margin were 0.05% in Q1 2026, 4.11% in Q4 2025, and 0.46% in Q3 2025.