Growth Metrics

Ingles Markets (IMKTA) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Ingles Markets has reported Operating Margin over the past 16 years, most recently at 2.85% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Operating Margin at 2.85% for Q4 2025, up 102.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.71% (up 84.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.43%, down 9.0%.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 2.85% at Ingles Markets, up from 4.34% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Operating Margin for IMKTA hit a ceiling of 7.87% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 8.54% in Q3 2024.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 4.35% (2023), compared with a mean of 3.73%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: tumbled -1305bps in 2024 and later soared 419bps in 2025.
  • Ingles Markets' Operating Margin stood at 6.5% in 2021, then dropped by -1bps to 6.41% in 2022, then tumbled by -37bps to 4.03% in 2023, then tumbled by -55bps to 1.83% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 56bps to 2.85% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 2.85% (Q4 2025), 4.34% (Q3 2025), and 2.77% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.