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

Designer Brands (DBI) has disclosed Operating Margin for 16 consecutive years, with 5.67% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin rose 273.0% to 5.67% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Nov 2025 was 1.25%, a 44.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.86%, down 321.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin was 5.67% for Q4 2025 at Designer Brands, up from 3.59% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 12.22% in Q4 2021 to a low of 11.13% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 2.87% and a median of 3.26% in 2023 define the central range for Operating Margin.
  • Biggest YoY gain for Operating Margin was 6952bps in 2021; the steepest drop was -943bps in 2021.
  • Designer Brands' Operating Margin stood at 12.22% in 2021, then crashed by -39bps to 7.46% in 2022, then tumbled by -52bps to 3.58% in 2023, then decreased by -18bps to 2.94% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 93bps to 5.67% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for DBI's Operating Margin are 5.67% (Q4 2025), 3.59% (Q3 2025), and 1.06% (Q2 2025).