Growth Metrics

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

Lazard's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.04% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.04%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.05%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.05%, N/A changed from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.04% at Lazard, down from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.19% in Q4 2021 and bottomed at 0.21% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.05% (2025), against an average of 0.05%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales plummeted -31bps in 2023 before it grew 25bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.19% in 2021, then tumbled by -71bps to 0.06% in 2022, then rose by 23bps to 0.07% in 2023, then tumbled by -34bps to 0.05% in 2024, then fell by -18bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LAZ's Return on Sales are 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.06% (Q3 2025), and 0.05% (Q2 2025).