Growth Metrics

Coca Cola (KO) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Coca Cola has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.2% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.2% for Q4 2025, changed 0.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.27% (up 5.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.27%, up 5.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.2% at Coca Cola, down from 0.3% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for KO hit a ceiling of 0.3% in Q2 2025 and a floor of 0.17% in Q3 2022.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.25% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.24%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: dropped -9bps in 2022 and later increased 11bps in 2025.
  • Coca Cola's Return on Sales stood at 0.26% in 2021, then dropped by -22bps to 0.2% in 2022, then fell by -10bps to 0.18% in 2023, then rose by 5bps to 0.19% in 2024, then rose by 2bps to 0.2% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.2% (Q4 2025), 0.3% (Q3 2025), and 0.3% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.