Growth Metrics

International Business Machines (IBM) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

International Business Machines (IBM) has 17 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.0% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales changed 0.0% year-over-year to 0.0%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.0%, changed 0.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.0%, 0.0% changed from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.0% in Q4 2025 per IBM's latest filing, up from 0.0% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.04% in Q1 2021 and bottomed at 0.01% in Q4 2021.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.0%, with a median of 0.0% recorded in 2023.
  • The widest YoY moves for Return on Sales: up 4bps in 2021, down -87bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.01% in 2021, then rose by 11bps to 0.01% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 102bps to 0.0% in 2023, then tumbled by -529bps to 0.0% in 2024, then soared by 244bps to 0.0% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.0% in Q4 2025, 0.0% in Q3 2025, and 0.0% in Q2 2025.