Growth Metrics

California Water Service (CWT) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

California Water Service has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.07% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.07% for Q4 2025, down 32.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.1% (down 9.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.1%, down 6.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.07% at California Water Service, down from 0.21% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for CWT hit a ceiling of 0.25% in Q3 2021 and a floor of 0.2% in Q1 2023.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.09% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.09%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: skyrocketed 42bps in 2024 and later plummeted -32bps in 2025.
  • California Water Service's Return on Sales stood at 0.03% in 2021, then surged by 35bps to 0.04% in 2022, then soared by 76bps to 0.07% in 2023, then soared by 237bps to 0.25% in 2024, then crashed by -130bps to 0.07% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.07% (Q4 2025), 0.21% (Q3 2025), and 0.12% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.