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CoreCivic (CXW) EBITDA Margin (2016 - 2025)

CoreCivic has reported EBITDA Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 8.96% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put EBITDA Margin at 8.96% for Q4 2025, up 43.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 9.92% (up 180.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 7.29%, down 20.0%.
  • EBITDA Margin for Q4 2025 was 8.96% at CoreCivic, down from 9.16% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, EBITDA Margin for CXW hit a ceiling of 24.42% in Q3 2022 and a floor of 1.44% in Q1 2021.
  • Median EBITDA Margin over the past 5 years was 9.28% (2024), compared with a mean of 9.93%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBITDA Margin: skyrocketed 1184bps in 2022 and later crashed -1668bps in 2023.
  • CoreCivic's EBITDA Margin stood at 12.84% in 2021, then fell by -14bps to 11.06% in 2022, then rose by 0bps to 11.07% in 2023, then fell by -23bps to 8.52% in 2024, then increased by 5bps to 8.96% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBITDA Margin were 8.96% (Q4 2025), 9.16% (Q3 2025), and 12.04% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.