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Estee Lauder Companies (EL) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Estee Lauder Companies has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.04% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.04% for Q4 2025, up 19.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.01% (up 3.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.08%, down 11.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.04% at Estee Lauder Companies, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for EL hit a ceiling of 0.26% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 0.16% in Q2 2025.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.04% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.05%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: soared 45bps in 2021 and later fell -24bps in 2022.
  • Estee Lauder Companies' Return on Sales stood at 0.2% in 2021, then plummeted by -56bps to 0.09% in 2022, then dropped by -12bps to 0.08% in 2023, then plummeted by -295bps to 0.15% in 2024, then soared by 126bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.16% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.