Growth Metrics

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

Essent's Return on Sales history spans 13 years, with the latest figure at 0.64% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 11.0% year-over-year to 0.64%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.7%, up 11.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.7%, 11.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.64% at Essent, down from 0.93% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 1.68% in Q4 2023 and bottomed at 0.48% in Q4 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.66% (2024), against an average of 0.75%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales skyrocketed 104bps in 2023 before it crashed -115bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.48% in 2021, then soared by 32bps to 0.64% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 162bps to 1.68% in 2023, then tumbled by -68bps to 0.53% in 2024, then rose by 20bps to 0.64% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ESNT's Return on Sales are 0.64% (Q4 2025), 0.93% (Q3 2025), and 0.61% (Q2 2025).