Growth Metrics

Element Solutions (ESI) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Element Solutions (ESI) has 13 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.06% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 3.0% year-over-year to 0.06%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.06%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.0%, 0.0% changed from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.06% in Q4 2025 per ESI's latest filing, down from 0.08% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.17% in Q1 2025 and bottomed at 0.0% in Q4 2021.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.04%, with a median of 0.02% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: grew 9bps in 2024, then fell -3bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.0% in 2021, then soared by 969bps to 0.02% in 2022, then plummeted by -106bps to 0.0% in 2023, then soared by 6393bps to 0.09% in 2024, then plummeted by -35bps to 0.06% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.06% in Q4 2025, 0.08% in Q3 2025, and 0.08% in Q2 2025.