Growth Metrics

Lincoln National (LNC) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Lincoln National's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.15% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 18.0% year-over-year to 0.15%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.06%, down 11.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.06%, 11.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.15% in Q4 2025 per LNC's latest filing, up from 0.1% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.56% in Q2 2022 to a low of 1.77% in Q4 2023.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.01%, with a median of 0.16% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: tumbled -178bps in 2023, then skyrocketed 210bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.5% in 2021, then crashed by -97bps to 0.01% in 2022, then crashed by -13259bps to 1.77% in 2023, then soared by 119bps to 0.33% in 2024, then plummeted by -54bps to 0.15% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LNC's Return on Sales are 0.15% (Q4 2025), 0.1% (Q3 2025), and 0.17% (Q2 2025).