Growth Metrics

Universal (UVV) Net Margin (2016 - 2025)

Universal's Net Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 4.83% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Net Margin fell 241.0% year-over-year to 4.83%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 3.61%, down 120.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 3.84%, 99.0% down from the prior year.
  • Net Margin for Q4 2025 was 4.83% at Universal, up from 4.61% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Net Margin topped out at 8.17% in Q1 2023 and bottomed at 1.0% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Net Margin is 4.81% (2021), against an average of 4.27%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Net Margin surged 374bps in 2021 before it crashed -393bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Net Margin shows it stood at 6.77% in 2021, then dropped by -5bps to 6.46% in 2022, then increased by 15bps to 7.46% in 2023, then decreased by -3bps to 7.23% in 2024, then tumbled by -33bps to 4.83% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for UVV's Net Margin are 4.83% (Q4 2025), 4.61% (Q3 2025), and 2.42% (Q2 2025).