Growth Metrics

First Watch Restaurant (FWRG) EBITDA Margin (2020 - 2025)

First Watch Restaurant has reported EBITDA Margin over the past 6 years, most recently at 4.81% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put EBITDA Margin at 4.81% for Q4 2025, up 376.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 1.54% (down 35.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 1.54%, down 35.0%.
  • EBITDA Margin for Q4 2025 was 4.81% at First Watch Restaurant, up from 0.97% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, EBITDA Margin for FWRG hit a ceiling of 4.81% in Q4 2025 and a floor of 2.86% in Q4 2021.
  • Median EBITDA Margin over the past 5 years was 1.0% (2024), compared with a mean of 1.37%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBITDA Margin: soared 1167bps in 2021 and later tumbled -389bps in 2025.
  • First Watch Restaurant's EBITDA Margin stood at 2.86% in 2021, then soared by 91bps to 0.26% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 281bps to 0.47% in 2023, then soared by 120bps to 1.04% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 361bps to 4.81% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBITDA Margin were 4.81% (Q4 2025), 0.97% (Q3 2025), and 0.65% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.