Growth Metrics

Universal (UVV) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Universal's EBIT Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 9.51% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, EBIT Margin fell 159.0% year-over-year to 9.51%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 7.77%, down 79.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 7.9%, 18.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBIT Margin for Q4 2025 was 9.51% at Universal, up from 8.97% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBIT Margin topped out at 11.11% in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 2.13% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for EBIT Margin is 8.75% (2022), against an average of 7.43%.
  • The largest annual shift saw EBIT Margin skyrocketed 517bps in 2021 before it crashed -276bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of EBIT Margin shows it stood at 9.62% in 2021, then rose by 1bps to 9.75% in 2022, then grew by 9bps to 10.65% in 2023, then increased by 4bps to 11.11% in 2024, then fell by -14bps to 9.51% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for UVV's EBIT Margin are 9.51% (Q4 2025), 8.97% (Q3 2025), and 5.69% (Q2 2025).