Growth Metrics

Pricesmart (PSMT) Gross Margin (2016 - 2026)

Pricesmart filings provide 16 years of Gross Margin readings, the most recent being 17.72% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Gross Margin rose 59.0% to 17.72% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Feb 2026 was 17.34%, a 5946.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 17.35%, up 11.0% from a year prior.
  • Gross Margin hit 17.72% in Q1 2026 for Pricesmart, roughly flat from 17.67% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Gross Margin ranged from a high of 100.0% in Q3 2022 to a low of 229.38% in Q3 2024.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 17.72% (2026), compared with a mean of 26.91%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: plummeted -24448bps in 2024 and later skyrocketed 24577bps in 2025.
  • Pricesmart's Gross Margin stood at 99.05% in 2022, then crashed by -82bps to 18.32% in 2023, then fell by -5bps to 17.41% in 2024, then grew by 1bps to 17.67% in 2025, then grew by 0bps to 17.72% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 17.72% (Q1 2026), 17.67% (Q4 2025), and 16.39% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.