Lee Enterprises (LEE) EBIT Margin (2010 - 2026)
Lee Enterprises posted quarterly EBIT Margin of 7.0% for Q1 2026, up 1028.0% year-on-year from 0.62% in Q1 2025, and up 74.91% on a QoQ basis from 4.0% in Q4 2025.
Lee Enterprises (LEE) has 17 years of EBIT Margin data on file, last reported at 7.0% in Q1 2026.
- For the quarter ending Q1 2026, EBIT Margin rose 1028.0% year-over-year to 7.0%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 3.18% (up 430.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.83%, down 157.0% from the prior year.
- EBIT Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 7.0%, up from 4.0% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, EBIT Margin topped out at 7.13% in Q2 2023 and bottomed at 3.28% in Q1 2025.
- The 5-year median for EBIT Margin is 3.27% (2024), against an average of 1.87%.
- The widest annual swing landed in 2024, when EBIT Margin plunged 897 bps; it then soared 1028 bps in 2026.
- A 5-year view of EBIT Margin shows it stood at 6.04% in 2022, then fell by 17 bps to 5.03% in 2023, then plunged by 146 bps to 2.32% in 2024, then soared by 273 bps to 4.0% in 2025, then surged by 75 bps to 7.0% in 2026.
- The last three EBIT Margin figures came in at 7.0% (Q1 2026), 4.0% (Q4 2025), and 1.05% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.
Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2026 | 7.00% |
| Dec 28, 2025 | 4.00% |
| Sep 28, 2025 | -1.05% |
| Jun 29, 2025 | 3.30% |
| Mar 30, 2025 | -3.28% |
| Dec 29, 2024 | -2.32% |
| Sep 29, 2024 | -2.31% |
| Jun 23, 2024 | 3.27% |
| Mar 24, 2024 | -3.11% |
| Dec 24, 2023 | 5.03% |
| Sep 24, 2023 | 6.66% |
| Jun 25, 2023 | 7.13% |
| Mar 26, 2023 | 1.67% |
| Dec 25, 2022 | 6.04% |
| Sep 25, 2022 | -1.79% |
| Jun 26, 2022 | 3.30% |
| Mar 27, 2022 | -1.70% |
| Dec 26, 2021 | 12.42% |
| Sep 26, 2021 | 6.99% |
| Jun 27, 2021 | 7.01% |
| Mar 28, 2021 | 4.37% |
| Dec 27, 2020 | 9.82% |
| Sep 27, 2020 | 3.36% |
| Jun 28, 2020 | 6.44% |
| Mar 29, 2020 | 11.36% |
| Dec 29, 2019 | 14.96% |
| Sep 29, 2019 | 11.65% |
| Jun 30, 2019 | 15.74% |
| Mar 31, 2019 | 10.24% |
| Dec 30, 2018 | 20.35% |
| Sep 30, 2018 | 13.70% |
| Jun 24, 2018 | 15.20% |
| Mar 25, 2018 | 12.96% |
| Dec 24, 2017 | 20.75% |
| Sep 24, 2017 | 13.07% |
| Jun 25, 2017 | 14.76% |
| Mar 26, 2017 | 14.10% |
| Dec 25, 2016 | 20.42% |
| Sep 25, 2016 | 16.33% |
| Jun 26, 2016 | 16.33% |
| Mar 27, 2016 | 12.76% |
| Dec 27, 2015 | 21.62% |
| Sep 27, 2015 | 17.16% |
| Jun 28, 2015 | 15.66% |
| Mar 29, 2015 | 12.93% |
| Dec 28, 2014 | 21.16% |
| Sep 28, 2014 | 12.67% |
| Jun 29, 2014 | 17.42% |
| Mar 30, 2014 | 15.29% |
| Dec 29, 2013 | 22.54% |
| Sep 29, 2013 | -87.67% |
| Jun 30, 2013 | 16.13% |
| Mar 31, 2013 | 11.62% |
| Dec 30, 2012 | 21.40% |
| Sep 30, 2012 | 13.56% |
| Jun 24, 2012 | 13.51% |
| Mar 25, 2012 | 10.28% |
| Dec 25, 2011 | 20.33% |
| Sep 25, 2011 | 4.22% |
| Jun 26, 2011 | 121.99% |
| Mar 27, 2011 | 8.20% |
| Dec 26, 2010 | 24.66% |
| Sep 26, 2010 | -5.80% |
| Jun 27, 2010 | 66.82% |