Growth Metrics

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

Ingles Markets (IMKTA) has 16 years of Operating Margin data on record, last reported at 2.85% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 102.0% year-over-year to 2.85%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 2.46%, up 42.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 2.2%, 40.0% down from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 2.85% in Q4 2025 per IMKTA's latest filing, up from 2.56% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 7.87% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 14.07% in Q3 2022.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 2.72%, with a median of 3.65% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: soared 1941bps in 2021, then plummeted -2146bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 6.5% in 2021, then decreased by -1bps to 6.41% in 2022, then crashed by -37bps to 4.03% in 2023, then tumbled by -55bps to 1.83% in 2024, then soared by 56bps to 2.85% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Margin were 2.85% in Q4 2025, 2.56% in Q3 2025, and 2.77% in Q2 2025.