Growth Metrics

Citi Trends (CTRN) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Citi Trends' Operating Margin history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 3.73% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 120.0% year-over-year to 3.73%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.27%, up 459.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 5.24%, 264.0% down from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 3.73% at Citi Trends, down from 1.84% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 19.04% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 24.8% in Q1 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 0.2% (2021), against an average of 0.23%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Operating Margin skyrocketed 3739bps in 2021 before it crashed -3002bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 5.08% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 236bps to 17.07% in 2022, then tumbled by -120bps to 3.34% in 2023, then crashed by -47bps to 4.93% in 2024, then increased by 24bps to 3.73% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CTRN's Operating Margin are 3.73% (Q4 2025), 1.84% (Q3 2025), and 0.24% (Q2 2025).