Growth Metrics

Kennametal (KMT) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Kennametal (KMT) has 17 years of Operating Margin data on record, last reported at 9.94% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 338.0% year-over-year to 9.94%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 8.16%, up 4.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 7.28%, 104.0% down from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 9.94% in Q4 2025 per KMT's latest filing, up from 7.54% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 11.82% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 5.75% in Q4 2023.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 8.99%, with a median of 9.46% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: soared 1558bps in 2021, then plummeted -523bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 9.76% in 2021, then decreased by -27bps to 7.14% in 2022, then dropped by -19bps to 5.75% in 2023, then increased by 14bps to 6.57% in 2024, then surged by 51bps to 9.94% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Margin were 9.94% in Q4 2025, 7.54% in Q3 2025, and 6.07% in Q2 2025.