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

Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY) has 8 years of EBT Margin data on record, last reported at 12.58% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, EBT Margin fell 336.0% year-over-year to 12.58%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.33%, down 538.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 3.28%, 412.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBT Margin reached 12.58% in Q4 2025 per PLAY's latest filing, down from 2.57% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBT Margin topped out at 19.35% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 46.26% in Q1 2021.
  • Average EBT Margin over 5 years is 2.99%, with a median of 7.09% recorded in 2022.
  • The widest YoY moves for EBT Margin: up 19296bps in 2021, down -5710bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of EBT Margin shows it stood at 2.58% in 2021, then crashed by -86bps to 0.35% in 2022, then plummeted by -724bps to 2.21% in 2023, then plummeted by -318bps to 9.23% in 2024, then plummeted by -36bps to 12.58% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for EBT Margin were 12.58% in Q4 2025, 2.57% in Q3 2025, and 4.65% in Q2 2025.