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
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| 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% |