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Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY) has 8 years of EBIT Margin data on record, last reported at 3.61% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, EBIT Margin fell 501.0% year-over-year to 3.61%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 6.84%, down 526.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 10.33%, 357.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBIT Margin reached 3.61% in Q4 2025 per PLAY's latest filing, down from 9.51% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBIT Margin topped out at 21.88% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 46.26% in Q1 2021.
  • Average EBIT Margin over 5 years is 8.68%, with a median of 12.82% recorded in 2022.
  • The widest YoY moves for EBIT Margin: up 18054bps in 2021, down -5710bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of EBIT Margin shows it stood at 7.7% in 2021, then decreased by -19bps to 6.26% in 2022, then crashed by -36bps to 3.98% in 2023, then crashed by -65bps to 1.39% in 2024, then plummeted by -360bps to 3.61% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for EBIT Margin were 3.61% in Q4 2025, 9.51% in Q3 2025, and 11.13% in Q2 2025.