Lee Enterprises (LEE) Other Operating Expenses (2010 - 2026)

For the trailing twelve months through Jun 28, 2026, Other Operating Expenses at Lee Enterprises was $264.9 million, down 12.9% year-over-year; for FY2025 (ended Sep 28, 2025), it came in at $294.64 million, down 2.4% from FY2024.

• Annual Other Operating Expenses has declined for three consecutive fiscal years, though with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 2.6% (FY2020 to FY2025).
• In prior fiscal years, Lee Enterprises' Other Operating Expenses was $301.95 million in FY2024 (-6.5%), $323.07 million in FY2023 (-6.3%), $344.91 million in FY2022 (+5.9%) and $325.6 million in FY2021 (+25.5%).
• The fiscal Q3 2026 figure stands as the lowest quarterly Other Operating Expenses since fiscal Q2 2020.
• On a year-over-year basis, Other Operating Expenses has declined in each of the last four quarters, with an average decline of 4.9% over the last eight quarters.
• The strongest year-over-year quarter for Other Operating Expenses in the past five years was fiscal Q4 2024, with growth of 9.5%; the weakest was fiscal Q3 2026, with a decline of 19.6%.
• According to Business Quant data, Other Operating Expenses for the three prior fiscal quarters was $62.75 million (Q2 2026), $68.81 million (Q1 2026) and $71.26 million (Q4 2025).