Growth Metrics

Carmax (KMX) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

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

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 855.0% year-over-year to 10.18%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 8.71%, up 467.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.66%, 4.0% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 10.18% in Q4 2025 per KMX's latest filing, down from 10.88% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 11.84% in Q2 2025 and bottomed at 0.23% in Q4 2022.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 3.65%, with a median of 2.24% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: plummeted -329bps in 2022, then surged 875bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 3.06% in 2021, then crashed by -108bps to 0.23% in 2022, then soared by 472bps to 0.86% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 90bps to 1.64% in 2024, then soared by 522bps to 10.18% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Margin were 10.18% in Q4 2025, 10.88% in Q3 2025, and 11.84% in Q2 2025.