Green Plains (GPRE) Operating Expenses (2010 - 2026)

On a trailing twelve-month basis, Green Plains' Operating Expenses was $1.69 billion through Jun 30, 2026, down 31.5% year-over-year; for FY2025, it was $2.16 billion, down 13.9% from FY2024.

• Operating Expenses has now declined for three consecutive years, though with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 1.1% (FY2020 to FY2025).
• In earlier years, Operating Expenses was $2.51 billion in FY2024 (-25.3%), $3.36 billion in FY2023 (-10.8%), $3.76 billion in FY2022 (+34.3%) and $2.8 billion in FY2021 (+36.9%).
• The Q2 2026 figure marks the lowest quarterly Operating Expenses since Q2 2014.
• Compared with a year earlier, Operating Expenses has declined for five straight quarters, with an average decline of 21.5% over the last eight quarters.
• The best year-over-year quarter for Operating Expenses over five years was Q3 2021 (growth of 80.6%); the worst was Q1 2026 (a decline of 39.6%).
• Per Business Quant data, GPRE's Operating Expenses in the three quarters before Q2 2026 was $401.03 million (Q1 2026), $439.34 million (Q4 2025) and $474.62 million (Q3 2025).