Growth Metrics

Dolby Laboratories (DLB) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Dolby Laboratories' Tax Rate history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 25.0% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Tax Rate rose 410.0% year-over-year to 25.0%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 16.23%, down 41.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 15.48%, 7.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate reached 25.0% in Q4 2025 per DLB's latest filing, up from 19.22% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 30.95% in Q2 2023 to a low of 19.22% in Q3 2025.
  • Average Tax Rate over 5 years is 12.91%, with a median of 16.3% recorded in 2023.
  • The largest YoY upside for Tax Rate was 7621bps in 2021 against a maximum downside of -2445bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 12.5% in 2021, then surged by 64bps to 20.5% in 2022, then fell by -20bps to 16.39% in 2023, then rose by 27bps to 20.9% in 2024, then rose by 20bps to 25.0% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for DLB's Tax Rate are 25.0% (Q4 2025), 19.22% (Q3 2025), and 16.21% (Q2 2025).