Growth Metrics

Universal (UVV) EBITDA Margin (2016 - 2025)

Universal's EBITDA Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 3.74% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, EBITDA Margin fell 233.0% year-over-year to 3.74%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 4.56%, down 54.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 7.9%, 18.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBITDA Margin for Q4 2025 was 3.74% at Universal, down from 4.59% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBITDA Margin topped out at 10.16% in Q1 2021 and bottomed at 0.84% in Q2 2024.
  • The 5-year median for EBITDA Margin is 4.66% (2024), against an average of 4.99%.
  • The largest annual shift saw EBITDA Margin skyrocketed 517bps in 2021 before it tumbled -293bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of EBITDA Margin shows it stood at 7.03% in 2021, then grew by 15bps to 8.06% in 2022, then fell by -12bps to 7.11% in 2023, then fell by -15bps to 6.08% in 2024, then crashed by -38bps to 3.74% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for UVV's EBITDA Margin are 3.74% (Q4 2025), 4.59% (Q3 2025), and 3.89% (Q2 2025).