Growth Metrics

Shift4 Payments (FOUR) Return on Sales (2019 - 2025)

Shift4 Payments' Return on Sales history spans 7 years, with the latest figure at 0.04% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 11.0% year-over-year to 0.04%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.04%, down 5.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.04%, 5.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.04% in Q4 2025 per FOUR's latest filing, up from 0.03% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.16% in Q4 2024 to a low of 0.21% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.03%, with a median of 0.04% recorded in 2023.
  • The largest YoY upside for Return on Sales was 54bps in 2021 against a maximum downside of -19bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.03% in 2021, then soared by 309bps to 0.07% in 2022, then plummeted by -62bps to 0.03% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 476bps to 0.16% in 2024, then tumbled by -72bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for FOUR's Return on Sales are 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.03% (Q3 2025), and 0.04% (Q2 2025).