Growth Metrics

Kennametal (KMT) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Kennametal has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.07% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.07% for Q4 2025, up 3.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.06% (up 1.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.05%, down 1.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.07% at Kennametal, up from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for KMT hit a ceiling of 0.08% in Q2 2022 and a floor of 0.04% in Q4 2024.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.06% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.06%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: grew 13bps in 2021 and later decreased -3bps in 2025.
  • Kennametal's Return on Sales stood at 0.07% in 2021, then tumbled by -31bps to 0.05% in 2022, then grew by 7bps to 0.05% in 2023, then fell by -20bps to 0.04% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 68bps to 0.07% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.07% (Q4 2025), 0.05% (Q3 2025), and 0.04% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.