Growth Metrics

Lamar Advertising (LAMR) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Lamar Advertising (LAMR) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.26% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales rose 24.0% to 0.26% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.22%, a 5.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.26%, up 10.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.26% for Q4 2025 at Lamar Advertising, up from 0.25% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.38% in Q1 2025 to a low of 0.02% in Q4 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.22% and a median of 0.24% in 2024 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: decreased -11bps in 2022, then rose 24bps in 2025.
  • Lamar Advertising's Return on Sales stood at 0.25% in 2021, then crashed by -44bps to 0.14% in 2022, then soared by 86bps to 0.26% in 2023, then crashed by -93bps to 0.02% in 2024, then soared by 1324bps to 0.26% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LAMR's Return on Sales are 0.26% (Q4 2025), 0.25% (Q3 2025), and 0.16% (Q2 2025).