Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL) Operating Margin (2009 - 2026)

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's Operating Margin history runs 18 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 0.84% for Q2 2026.

• On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 97.0% year-over-year to 0.84% in Q2 2026; TTM through May 2026 was 0.65%, a 274.0% decrease from a year earlier, with the FY2025 full-year figure at 1.58%, up 28.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin was 0.84% for Q2 2026 at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, up from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
• Over the last five years, Operating Margin for CBRL reached as high as 5.41% in Q1 2022 and fell as low as 4.11% in Q4 2025.
• A 5-year average of 1.94% and a median of 2.25% in 2023 frame the typical range for Operating Margin.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Operating Margin soared 3441 bps; it then slumped 495 bps in 2025.
• Tracing CBRL's Operating Margin over 5 years: stood at 2.81% in 2022, then tumbled by 51 bps to 1.39% in 2023, then slumped by 40 bps to 0.84% in 2024, then slumped by 592 bps to 4.11% in 2025, then jumped by 120 bps to 0.84% in 2026.
• According to Business Quant data, Operating Margin over the past three periods registered 0.84%, 0.05%, and 4.11% for Q2 2026, Q1 2026, and Q4 2025 respectively.