Growth Metrics

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

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has reported FCF Margin over the past 18 years, most recently at 0.66% for Q1 2026.

  • Quarterly results put FCF Margin at 0.66% for Q1 2026, down 351.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Jan 2026 was 0.63% (down 536.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 1.72%, down 288.0%.
  • FCF Margin for Q1 2026 was 0.66% at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, up from 7.36% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, FCF Margin for CBRL hit a ceiling of 21.18% in Q3 2023 and a floor of 7.47% in Q2 2022.
  • Median FCF Margin over the past 5 years was 2.84% (2025), compared with a mean of 3.98%.
  • Peak annual rise in FCF Margin hit 1020bps in 2022, while the deepest fall reached -1433bps in 2022.
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's FCF Margin stood at 0.62% in 2022, then tumbled by -295bps to 2.44% in 2023, then surged by 50bps to 1.23% in 2024, then plummeted by -499bps to 7.36% in 2025, then skyrocketed by 91bps to 0.66% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Margin were 0.66% (Q1 2026), 7.36% (Q4 2025), and 5.93% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.