Novanta (NOVTU) Operating Margin (2010 - 2026)
Novanta (NOVTU) reported Operating Margin of 6.79% for Q2 2026, up 0.61 percentage points from 6.19% a year earlier but down 3.89 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Novanta (NOVTU) Operating Margin (2010 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
Over the twelve months ended Jul 3, 2026, Novanta's Operating Margin came in at 8.96%, down 2.18 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was 9.59%, down 2.06 percentage points from FY2024.
- Operating Margin has a five-year change of +0.12 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- By year, Operating Margin came in at 11.65% in FY2024 (-0.88 pp), 12.53% in FY2023 (+0.56 pp), 11.97% in FY2022 (+2.91 pp) and 9.06% in FY2021 (-0.40 pp).
- Five-year quarterly Operating Margin spans a low of 6.19% in Q2 2025 and a high of 14.03% in Q2 2023.
- Year over year, Operating Margin gained in three of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -1.25 percentage points.
- The high point for year-over-year Operating Margin in five years was Q1 2022 (a gain of 5.06 percentage points); the low point was Q2 2025 (a drop of 4.72 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, the three quarters before Q2 2026 came in at 10.69% (Q1 2026), 9.61% (Q4 2025) and 8.82% (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2026 | 6.79% |
| Apr 3, 2026 | 10.69% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 9.61% |
| Sep 26, 2025 | 8.82% |
| Jun 27, 2025 | 6.19% |
| Mar 28, 2025 | 13.89% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 11.22% |
| Sep 27, 2024 | 13.32% |
| Jun 28, 2024 | 10.90% |
| Mar 29, 2024 | 11.09% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 10.25% |
| Sep 29, 2023 | 13.68% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 14.03% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 12.01% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 12.29% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 12.85% |
| Jul 1, 2022 | 10.82% |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 11.89% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 10.90% |
| Oct 1, 2021 | 8.59% |
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Novanta Operating Margin API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-margin&ticker=NOVTU&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "operating-margin", "ticker": "NOVTU", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-margin&ticker=NOVTU&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();