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Lee Enterprises (LEE) FCF Margin (2016 - 2024)

Lee Enterprises' FCF Margin history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 6.15% for Q4 2024.

  • For Q4 2024, FCF Margin fell 554.0% year-over-year to 6.15%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 4.9%, down 316.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.26%, 6.0% up from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin reached 6.15% in Q4 2024 per LEE's latest filing, down from 1.84% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 14.15% in Q2 2020 to a low of 6.15% in Q4 2024.
  • Average FCF Margin over 5 years is 1.02%, with a median of 0.6% recorded in 2021.
  • The largest YoY upside for FCF Margin was 1243bps in 2021 against a maximum downside of -1359bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 8.11% in 2020, then tumbled by -107bps to 0.6% in 2021, then crashed by -208bps to 1.84% in 2022, then surged by 67bps to 0.61% in 2023, then plummeted by -908bps to 6.15% in 2024.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LEE's FCF Margin are 6.15% (Q4 2024), 1.84% (Q3 2024), and 3.64% (Q2 2024).