Growth Metrics

Lee Enterprises (LEE) EBITDA Margin (2010 - 2026)

Lee Enterprises posted quarterly EBITDA Margin of 1.83% for Q1 2026, up 736.0% year-on-year from 0.22% in Q1 2025, and up 58.26% on a QoQ basis from 4.37% in Q4 2025.

Lee Enterprises (LEE) has 17 years of EBITDA Margin data on file, last reported at 1.83% in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, EBITDA Margin rose 736.0% year-over-year to 1.83%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 2.5% (up 567.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 6.18%, down 82.0% from the prior year.
  • EBITDA Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 1.83%, up from 4.37% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBITDA Margin topped out at 5.26% in Q3 2023 and bottomed at 12.51% in Q3 2022.
  • The 5-year median for EBITDA Margin is 2.93% (2024), against an average of 3.94%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when EBITDA Margin plunged 4597 bps; it then surged 1777 bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of EBITDA Margin shows it stood at 0.52% in 2022, then sank by 302 bps to 1.04% in 2023, then plunged by 1017 bps to 11.66% in 2024, then soared by 62 bps to 4.37% in 2025, then jumped by 58 bps to 1.83% in 2026.
  • The last three EBITDA Margin figures came in at 1.83% (Q1 2026), 4.37% (Q4 2025), and 2.41% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 29, 2026 -1.83%
Dec 28, 2025 -4.37%
Sep 28, 2025 -2.41%
Jun 29, 2025 -1.44%
Mar 30, 2025 -9.19%
Dec 29, 2024 -11.66%
Sep 29, 2024 -9.08%
Jun 23, 2024 -2.93%
Mar 24, 2024 -8.41%
Dec 24, 2023 -1.04%
Sep 24, 2023 5.26%
Jun 25, 2023 0.80%
Mar 26, 2023 -3.53%
Dec 25, 2022 0.52%
Sep 25, 2022 -12.51%
Jun 26, 2022 -0.74%
Mar 27, 2022 -4.44%
Dec 26, 2021 3.24%
Sep 26, 2021 33.46%
Jun 27, 2021 1.89%
Mar 28, 2021 -0.34%
Dec 27, 2020 8.05%
Sep 27, 2020 3.89%
Jun 28, 2020 -0.52%
Mar 29, 2020 -4.16%
Dec 29, 2019 4.61%
Sep 29, 2019 -13.09%
Jun 30, 2019 4.43%
Mar 31, 2019 -2.28%
Dec 30, 2018 7.52%
Sep 30, 2018 5.99%
Jun 24, 2018 3.38%
Mar 25, 2018 1.72%
Dec 24, 2017 24.36%
Sep 24, 2017 6.34%
Jun 25, 2017 4.34%
Mar 26, 2017 5.26%
Dec 25, 2016 7.94%
Sep 25, 2016 -4.03%
Jun 26, 2016 2.68%
Mar 27, 2016 13.07%
Dec 27, 2015 6.65%
Sep 27, 2015 2.57%
Jun 28, 2015 1.07%
Mar 29, 2015 1.03%
Dec 28, 2014 5.40%
Sep 28, 2014 -7.97%
Jun 29, 2014 -6.20%
Mar 30, 2014 0.67%
Dec 29, 2013 6.42%
Sep 29, 2013 -41.43%
Jun 30, 2013 1.02%
Mar 31, 2013 -3.79%
Dec 30, 2012 7.85%
Sep 30, 2012 -6.11%
Jun 24, 2012 -0.77%
Mar 25, 2012 -16.08%
Dec 25, 2011 7.70%
Sep 25, 2011 -14.50%
Jun 26, 2011 109.35%
Mar 27, 2011 -2.77%
Dec 26, 2010 12.25%
Sep 26, 2010 0.09%
Jun 27, 2010 20.88%