Growth Metrics

Main Street Capital (MAIN) Return on Sales (2021 - 2025)

Main Street Capital (MAIN) has 4 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.28% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 34.0% year-over-year to 0.28%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.28%, down 31.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.87%, 228.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.28% in Q4 2025 per MAIN's latest filing, down from 0.37% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 2.06% in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 2.24% in Q1 2023.
  • Average Return on Sales over 4 years is 0.25%, with a median of 0.45% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: crashed -161bps in 2023, then surged 292bps in 2024.
  • A 4-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.49% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 43bps to 0.7% in 2023, then dropped by -10bps to 0.63% in 2024, then tumbled by -55bps to 0.28% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.28% in Q4 2025, 0.37% in Q3 2025, and 0.42% in Q2 2025.