Growth Metrics

Genesco (GCO) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Genesco (GCO) has 16 years of Operating Margin data on record, last reported at 1.39% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin fell 32.0% year-over-year to 1.39%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.51%, up 29.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.6%, 118.0% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 1.39% in Q4 2025 per GCO's latest filing, up from 2.64% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 11.46% in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 7.39% in Q3 2023.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 1.74%, with a median of 1.79% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: soared 5876bps in 2021, then plummeted -908bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 7.29% in 2021, then plummeted by -41bps to 4.32% in 2022, then tumbled by -57bps to 1.87% in 2023, then fell by -9bps to 1.71% in 2024, then dropped by -19bps to 1.39% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Margin were 1.39% in Q4 2025, 2.64% in Q3 2025, and 5.94% in Q2 2025.