Growth Metrics

Carmax (KMX) Gross Margin (2016 - 2025)

Carmax (KMX) has 17 years of Gross Margin data on record, last reported at 10.18% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Gross Margin fell 70.0% year-over-year to 10.18%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 11.06%, up 22.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 11.0%, 77.0% up from the prior year.
  • Gross Margin reached 10.18% in Q4 2025 per KMX's latest filing, down from 10.88% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Gross Margin topped out at 12.42% in Q1 2021 and bottomed at 8.86% in Q4 2022.
  • Average Gross Margin over 5 years is 10.47%, with a median of 10.53% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Gross Margin: plummeted -379bps in 2021, then soared 143bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Gross Margin shows it stood at 9.81% in 2021, then decreased by -10bps to 8.86% in 2022, then rose by 12bps to 9.97% in 2023, then grew by 9bps to 10.89% in 2024, then fell by -6bps to 10.18% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Gross Margin were 10.18% in Q4 2025, 10.88% in Q3 2025, and 11.84% in Q2 2025.