Yext (YEXT) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026)
Yext (YEXT) posted Operating Margin of 15.81% for fiscal Q2 2027 (quarter ended Jul 31, 2026), down 10.43 percentage points from 26.24% a year earlier but up 10.63 percentage points from the prior quarter.
Yext (YEXT) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For the trailing twelve months through Jul 31, 2026, Operating Margin at Yext was 8.33%, up 5.81 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026), it came in at 9.98%, up 17.68 percentage points from FY2025.
- Annual Operating Margin shows a five-year change of +36.57 percentage points (FY2021 to FY2026).
- In prior fiscal years, Yext's Operating Margin was -7.71% in FY2025 (-6.17 pp), -1.53% in FY2024 (+14.64 pp), -16.17% in FY2023 (+6.86 pp) and -23.03% in FY2022 (+3.57 pp).
- Quarterly Operating Margin has run from a low of -25.81% in fiscal Q1 2023 to a high of 26.24% in fiscal Q2 2026 over five years.
- On a year-over-year basis, Operating Margin increased in five of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +5.92 percentage points.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Operating Margin in the past five years was fiscal Q2 2026, with a gain of 33.97 percentage points; the weakest was fiscal Q2 2027, with a drop of 10.43 percentage points.
- According to Business Quant data, Operating Margin for the three prior fiscal quarters was 5.17% (Q1 2027), 5.34% (Q4 2026) and 6.95% (Q3 2026).
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Operating Margin (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 449.46 Bn | 418.52 Bn | 1.64 Bn | 47.12% |
| 2 | Oracle | 415.29 Bn | 287.84 Bn | - | 34.78% |
| 3 | Sap Se | 256.30 Bn | 177.39 Bn | 8.40 Bn | 26.76% |
| 4 | Salesforce | 188.94 Bn | 144.82 Bn | 8.70 Bn | 20.55% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 138.57 Bn | 117.03 Bn | 2.82 Bn | 4.06% |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 102.66 Bn | 84.78 Bn | 2.51 Bn | -33.33% |
| 7 | Intuit | 74.00 Bn | 53.35 Bn | 3.44 Bn | 10.91% |
| 8 | Relx | 60.34 Bn | 57.31 Bn | - | - |
| 9 | Strategy | 53.88 Bn | 46.87 Bn | 81.55 Mn | -6,808.11% |
| 10 | Yext | 642.37 Mn | 169.62 Mn | 83.84 Mn | 15.81% |
Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 15.81% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | 5.17% |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 5.34% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 6.95% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 26.24% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 1.02% |
| Jan 31, 2025 | -8.04% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | -9.10% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | -7.73% |
| Apr 30, 2024 | -5.65% |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 1.03% |
| Oct 31, 2023 | -1.76% |
| Jul 31, 2023 | -4.12% |
| Apr 30, 2023 | -1.24% |
| Jan 31, 2023 | -7.53% |
| Oct 31, 2022 | -12.22% |
| Jul 31, 2022 | -19.35% |
| Apr 30, 2022 | -25.81% |
| Jan 31, 2022 | -21.76% |
| Oct 31, 2021 | -24.47% |
Yext Operating Margin API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-margin&ticker=YEXT&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "operating-margin", "ticker": "YEXT", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-margin&ticker=YEXT&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();