Growth Metrics

Encore Capital (ECPG) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Encore Capital's Return on Sales history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.16% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 41.0% year-over-year to 0.16%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.15%, up 25.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.15%, 25.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.16% at Encore Capital, up from 0.09% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 6.72% in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 0.31% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.1% (2022), against an average of 0.83%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales soared 649bps in 2022 before it tumbled -666bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.21% in 2021, then crashed by -47bps to 0.31% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 255bps to 0.48% in 2023, then crashed by -151bps to 0.25% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 165bps to 0.16% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ECPG's Return on Sales are 0.16% (Q4 2025), 0.09% (Q3 2025), and 0.13% (Q2 2025).