Growth Metrics

Lazard (LAZ) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Lazard's Return on Equity history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.19% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Equity fell 2.0% year-over-year to 0.19%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.19%, down 2.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.21%, N/A changed from the prior year.
  • Return on Equity for Q4 2025 was 0.19% at Lazard, up from 0.16% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Equity topped out at 0.67% in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 0.36% in Q3 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Equity is 0.2% (2025), against an average of 0.18%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Equity tumbled -103bps in 2023 before it skyrocketed 68bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Equity shows it stood at 0.29% in 2021, then surged by 72bps to 0.5% in 2022, then crashed by -159bps to 0.3% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 170bps to 0.21% in 2024, then decreased by -9bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LAZ's Return on Equity are 0.19% (Q4 2025), 0.16% (Q3 2025), and 0.24% (Q2 2025).