Growth Metrics

Deluxe (DLX) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Deluxe's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.02% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales changed 0.0% year-over-year to 0.02%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.04%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.04%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.02% in Q4 2025 per DLX's latest filing, down from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.06% in Q3 2025 to a low of 0.01% in Q3 2023.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.03%, with a median of 0.03% recorded in 2021.
  • The largest YoY upside for Return on Sales was 18bps in 2021 against a maximum downside of -4bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.02% in 2021, then surged by 77bps to 0.04% in 2022, then plummeted by -35bps to 0.03% in 2023, then decreased by -13bps to 0.02% in 2024, then fell by -8bps to 0.02% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for DLX's Return on Sales are 0.02% (Q4 2025), 0.06% (Q3 2025), and 0.04% (Q2 2025).