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 improved to 0.84% in Q2 2026 per CBRL's latest filing, from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 5.41% in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 4.11% in Q4 2025.
• The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 2.25% (2023), against an average of 1.94%.
• Biggest YoY gain for Operating Margin was 417 bps in 2025; the steepest drop was 495 bps in 2025.
• Year by year, Operating Margin stood at 2.81% in 2022, then sank by 51 bps to 1.39% in 2023, then plunged by 40 bps to 0.84% in 2024, then plunged by 592 bps to 4.11% in 2025, then soared by 120 bps to 0.84% in 2026.
• Per Business Quant, the three latest CBRL Operating Margin figures stand at 0.84% (Q2 2026), 0.05% (Q1 2026), and 4.11% (Q4 2025).