Growth Metrics

Greenbrier Companies (GBX) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Greenbrier Companies' Return on Sales history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.05% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 2.0% year-over-year to 0.05%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.06%, changed 0.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.06%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.05% at Greenbrier Companies, up from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.14% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 2.5% in Q3 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.04% (2021), against an average of 0.1%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales plummeted -264bps in 2022 before it soared 253bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.0% in 2021, then crashed by -2567bps to 0.03% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 246bps to 0.04% in 2023, then soared by 60bps to 0.06% in 2024, then dropped by -25bps to 0.05% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for GBX's Return on Sales are 0.05% (Q4 2025), 0.05% (Q3 2025), and 0.07% (Q2 2025).