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Sonic Automotive (SAH) EBT Margin (2016 - 2026)

Sonic Automotive filings provide 17 years of EBT Margin readings, the most recent being 2.31% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, EBT Margin fell 36.0% to 2.31% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 1.06%, a 99.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 1.14%, down 66.0% from a year prior.
  • EBT Margin hit 2.31% in Q1 2026 for Sonic Automotive, up from 1.89% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, EBT Margin ranged from a high of 3.73% in Q1 2022 to a low of 5.08% in Q4 2022.
  • Median EBT Margin over the past 5 years was 1.82% (2023), compared with a mean of 1.55%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBT Margin: plummeted -893bps in 2022 and later surged 661bps in 2023.
  • Sonic Automotive's EBT Margin stood at 5.08% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 130bps to 1.52% in 2023, then soared by 38bps to 2.11% in 2024, then decreased by -10bps to 1.89% in 2025, then increased by 22bps to 2.31% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for EBT Margin were 2.31% (Q1 2026), 1.89% (Q4 2025), and 1.79% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.