Culp (CULP) Operating Margin (2010 - 2026)

Culp's (CULP) quarterly Operating Margin came in at 7.77% in Q1 2026, down 33.0% year-on-year from 11.59% in Q1 2025, and down 19.59% quarter-over-quarter from 6.49% in Q4 2025.

Culp (CULP) Operating Margin (2010 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Culp has disclosed Operating Margin across 17 years of filings, most recently posting 7.77% for Q1 2026.

  • Operating Margin for Q1 2026 came in at 7.77%, down 33.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Feb 2026 was 4.63% (up 328.0% YoY), and the FY2023 annual result was 12.12%, down 1235.0% from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin came in at 7.77% for Q1 2026 at Culp, down from 6.49% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 33.74% in Q4 2022 to a low of 14.82% in Q1 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 7.5% (2022), against an average of 3.43%.
  • Across the five-year window, Operating Margin jumped 3154 bps in 2022 and slumped 1619 bps in 2023, its largest moves.
  • Culp's Operating Margin stood at 33.74% in 2022, then plunged by 112 bps to 4.07% in 2023, then sank by 138 bps to 9.7% in 2024, then soared by 33 bps to 6.49% in 2025, then slipped by 20 bps to 7.77% in 2026.
  • The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 7.77% (Q1 2026), 6.49% (Q4 2025), and 3.19% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Operating Margin (Qtr)
1 Albany International 1.97 Bn 1.85 Bn 99.79 Mn 8.15%
2 Unifi 74.74 Mn 46.27 Mn 9.12 Mn -0.09%
3 Ping An Biomedical 476,878.78 -4.65 Mn - -
4 Culp - - 5.32 Mn -7.77%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Feb 1, 2026 -7.77%
Nov 2, 2025 -6.49%
Aug 3, 2025 3.19%
Jan 26, 2025 -7.44%
Oct 27, 2024 -9.70%
Jul 28, 2024 -12.12%
Apr 30, 2023 -4.07%
Jan 29, 2023 -14.82%
Oct 30, 2022 33.74%
Jul 31, 2022 -7.57%
May 1, 2022 -9.45%
Jan 30, 2022 1.37%
Oct 31, 2021 2.20%
Aug 1, 2021 4.00%
May 2, 2021 2.07%
Jan 31, 2021 5.09%
Nov 1, 2020 5.88%
Aug 2, 2020 2.92%
May 3, 2020 -37.98%
Feb 2, 2020 3.98%