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Noodles (NDLS) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Noodles (NDLS) has disclosed FCF Margin for 14 consecutive years, with 1.18% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • For the quarter ending Q3 2025, FCF Margin fell 356.0% year-over-year to 1.18%, compared with a TTM value of 0.53% through Sep 2025, up 608.0%, and an annual FY2024 reading of 4.3%, up 58.0% over the prior year.
  • FCF Margin was 1.18% for Q3 2025 at Noodles, up from 0.67% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 15.49% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 12.86% in Q1 2022.
  • Average FCF Margin over 5 years is 1.05%, with a median of 1.07% recorded in 2025.
  • The sharpest move saw FCF Margin tumbled -1381bps in 2022, then surged 1031bps in 2023.
  • Year by year, FCF Margin stood at 0.4% in 2021, then crashed by -884bps to 3.13% in 2022, then increased by 19bps to 2.55% in 2023, then soared by 30bps to 1.78% in 2024, then soared by 166bps to 1.18% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows FCF Margin for NDLS at 1.18% in Q3 2025, 0.67% in Q3 2025, and 3.26% in Q2 2025.