Growth Metrics

Albemarle (ALB-PA) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Albemarle's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.65% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 129.0% year-over-year to 0.65%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.18%, up 37.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.14%, 21.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.65% in Q4 2025 per ALB-PA's latest filing, down from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.55% in Q2 2021 to a low of 1.95% in Q4 2024.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.09%, with a median of 0.02% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: plummeted -151bps in 2024, then soared 129bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.03% in 2021, then soared by 1340bps to 0.32% in 2022, then tumbled by -238bps to 0.44% in 2023, then plummeted by -342bps to 1.95% in 2024, then soared by 66bps to 0.65% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ALB-PA's Return on Sales are 0.65% (Q4 2025), 0.06% (Q3 2025), and 0.03% (Q2 2025).