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Designer Brands (DBI) Net Margin (2016 - 2025)

Designer Brands (DBI) has disclosed Net Margin for 15 consecutive years, with 2.57% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Net Margin rose 87.0% to 2.57% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Nov 2025 was 0.85%, a 81.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.33%, down 128.0% from a year prior.
  • Net Margin was 2.57% for Q4 2025 at Designer Brands, up from 1.52% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Net Margin ranged from a high of 9.4% in Q4 2021 to a low of 21.99% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 1.0% and a median of 1.79% in 2022 define the central range for Net Margin.
  • Biggest YoY gain for Net Margin was 4713bps in 2021; the steepest drop was -2108bps in 2021.
  • Designer Brands' Net Margin stood at 9.4% in 2021, then plummeted by -44bps to 5.22% in 2022, then tumbled by -75bps to 1.3% in 2023, then soared by 31bps to 1.7% in 2024, then soared by 51bps to 2.57% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for DBI's Net Margin are 2.57% (Q4 2025), 1.52% (Q3 2025), and 2.49% (Q2 2025).