Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)
Kaiser Aluminum's Operating Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 6.52% for Q4 2025.
- For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 149.0% year-over-year to 6.52%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 5.6%, up 189.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 5.6%, 189.0% up from the prior year.
- Operating Margin reached 6.52% in Q4 2025 per KALU's latest filing, up from 5.79% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 6.52% in Q4 2025 to a low of 7.87% in Q4 2023.
- Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 2.16%, with a median of 2.65% recorded in 2021.
- Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: plummeted -1143bps in 2021, then soared 1290bps in 2024.
- A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 4.63% in 2021, then surged by 38bps to 2.86% in 2022, then plummeted by -175bps to 7.87% in 2023, then surged by 164bps to 5.03% in 2024, then increased by 30bps to 6.52% in 2025.
- Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for KALU's Operating Margin are 6.52% (Q4 2025), 5.79% (Q3 2025), and 4.62% (Q2 2025).