Lee Enterprises (LEE) EBT Margin (2010 - 2026)
Lee Enterprises posted quarterly EBT Margin of 1.43% for Q1 2026, up 1147.0% year-on-year from 0.11% in Q1 2025, and up 144.21% on a QoQ basis from 3.23% in Q4 2025.
Lee Enterprises (LEE) has 17 years of EBT Margin data on file, last reported at 1.43% in Q1 2026.
- For the quarter ending Q1 2026, EBT Margin rose 1147.0% year-over-year to 1.43%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 3.44% (up 416.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 7.58%, down 248.0% from the prior year.
- EBT Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 1.43%, up from 3.23% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, EBT Margin topped out at 1.48% in Q2 2023 and bottomed at 10.04% in Q1 2025.
- The 5-year median for EBT Margin is 3.23% (2025), against an average of 3.76%.
- The widest annual swing landed in 2024, when EBT Margin tumbled 993 bps; it then surged 1147 bps in 2026.
- A 5-year view of EBT Margin shows it stood at 1.22% in 2022, then retreated by 22 bps to 0.95% in 2023, then tumbled by 1044 bps to 8.98% in 2024, then surged by 64 bps to 3.23% in 2025, then surged by 144 bps to 1.43% in 2026.
- The last three EBT Margin figures came in at 1.43% (Q1 2026), 3.23% (Q4 2025), and 8.23% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.
Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2026 | 1.43% |
| Dec 28, 2025 | -3.23% |
| Sep 28, 2025 | -8.23% |
| Jun 29, 2025 | -3.13% |
| Mar 30, 2025 | -10.04% |
| Dec 29, 2024 | -8.98% |
| Sep 29, 2024 | -8.61% |
| Jun 23, 2024 | -3.02% |
| Mar 24, 2024 | -9.88% |
| Dec 24, 2023 | 0.95% |
| Sep 24, 2023 | -0.27% |
| Jun 25, 2023 | 1.48% |
| Mar 26, 2023 | -4.36% |
| Dec 25, 2022 | 1.22% |
| Sep 25, 2022 | -4.27% |
| Jun 26, 2022 | 0.18% |
| Mar 27, 2022 | -5.18% |
| Dec 26, 2021 | 9.17% |
| Sep 26, 2021 | 2.79% |
| Jun 27, 2021 | 2.60% |
| Mar 28, 2021 | -0.61% |
| Dec 27, 2020 | 10.72% |
| Sep 27, 2020 | 1.53% |
| Jun 28, 2020 | -0.20% |
| Mar 29, 2020 | -6.03% |
| Dec 29, 2019 | 6.20% |
| Sep 29, 2019 | 2.51% |
| Jun 30, 2019 | 6.03% |
| Mar 31, 2019 | 1.77% |
| Dec 30, 2018 | 11.18% |
| Sep 30, 2018 | 3.58% |
| Jun 24, 2018 | 5.07% |
| Mar 25, 2018 | 2.71% |
| Dec 24, 2017 | 10.88% |
| Sep 24, 2017 | 4.18% |
| Jun 25, 2017 | 5.83% |
| Mar 26, 2017 | 5.64% |
| Dec 25, 2016 | 12.15% |
| Sep 25, 2016 | 0.18% |
| Jun 26, 2016 | 4.91% |
| Mar 27, 2016 | 21.71% |
| Dec 27, 2015 | 11.08% |
| Sep 27, 2015 | 9.21% |
| Jun 28, 2015 | 2.69% |
| Mar 29, 2015 | 1.76% |
| Dec 28, 2014 | 9.31% |
| Sep 28, 2014 | 3.48% |
| Jun 29, 2014 | -8.77% |
| Mar 30, 2014 | 2.06% |
| Dec 29, 2013 | 10.92% |
| Sep 29, 2013 | -100.38% |
| Jun 30, 2013 | 3.07% |
| Mar 31, 2013 | -2.72% |
| Dec 30, 2012 | 12.50% |
| Sep 30, 2012 | -2.13% |
| Jun 24, 2012 | -0.62% |
| Mar 25, 2012 | -24.71% |
| Dec 25, 2011 | 11.97% |
| Sep 25, 2011 | -4.24% |
| Jun 26, 2011 | 135.14% |
| Mar 27, 2011 | -0.68% |
| Dec 26, 2010 | 16.74% |
| Sep 26, 2010 | -1.79% |
| Jun 27, 2010 | 30.68% |