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

Lee Enterprises (LEE) has 17 years of FCF Margin data on file, last reported at 5.6% in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Margin fell 402.0% year-over-year to 5.6%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.16% (up 345.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 1.26%, up 6.0% from the prior year.
• FCF Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 5.6%, down from 2.85% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 5.86% in Q2 2025 and bottomed at 6.15% in Q4 2024.
• The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 1.69% (2023), against an average of 1.15%.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when FCF Margin slumped 1204 bps; it then soared 949 bps in 2025.
• A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 1.84% in 2022, then jumped by 67 bps to 0.61% in 2023, then sank by 908 bps to 6.15% in 2024, then soared by 146 bps to 2.85% in 2025, then sank by 296 bps to 5.6% in 2026.
• The last three FCF Margin figures came in at 5.6% (Q1 2026), 2.85% (Q4 2025), and 3.1% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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