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

Sonic Automotive filings provide 17 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 3.6% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 37.0% to 3.6% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 2.34%, a 111.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 2.43%, down 82.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 3.6% in Q1 2026 for Sonic Automotive, up from 3.18% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 4.47% in Q1 2022 to a low of 4.01% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 3.18% (2025), compared with a mean of 2.77%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: crashed -903bps in 2022 and later soared 684bps in 2023.
  • Sonic Automotive's Operating Margin stood at 4.01% in 2022, then soared by 171bps to 2.83% in 2023, then grew by 21bps to 3.43% in 2024, then decreased by -7bps to 3.18% in 2025, then rose by 13bps to 3.6% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 3.6% (Q1 2026), 3.18% (Q4 2025), and 3.09% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.