Growth Metrics

Liberty Global (LBTYA) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026)

Liberty Global filings provide 15 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 1.87% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 332.0% to 1.87% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 1.21%, a 150.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.48%, up 91.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 1.87% in Q1 2026 for Liberty Global, up from 8.58% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 6.24% in Q3 2022 to a low of 8.58% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 0.98% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.24%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: crashed -1657bps in 2022 and later skyrocketed 813bps in 2024.
  • Liberty Global's Operating Margin stood at 6.16% in 2022, then plummeted by -99bps to 0.04% in 2023, then crashed by -10507bps to 4.29% in 2024, then crashed by -100bps to 8.58% in 2025, then surged by 122bps to 1.87% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 1.87% (Q1 2026), 8.58% (Q4 2025), and 0.66% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.