Growth Metrics

Essent (ESNT) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Essent (ESNT) has disclosed Return on Sales for 13 consecutive years, with 0.64% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Sales fell 203.0% to 0.64% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.7% through Dec 2025, down 9.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.7% for FY2025, 3.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales hit 0.64% in Q4 2025 for Essent, down from 0.67% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 2.66% in Q4 2024 to a low of 0.55% in Q1 2021.
  • Historically, Return on Sales has averaged 0.89% across 5 years, with a median of 0.72% in 2023.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: surged 104bps in 2023 and later plummeted -203bps in 2025.
  • Year by year, Return on Sales stood at 0.7% in 2021, then decreased by -9bps to 0.64% in 2022, then surged by 162bps to 1.68% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 59bps to 2.66% in 2024, then crashed by -76bps to 0.64% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Sales for ESNT at 0.64% in Q4 2025, 0.67% in Q3 2025, and 0.79% in Q2 2025.