Growth Metrics

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

Main Street Capital has reported Return on Sales over the past 5 years, most recently at 0.43% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.43% for Q4 2025, changed 0.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.42% (up 3.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.42%, up 5.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.43% at Main Street Capital, up from 0.41% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for MAIN hit a ceiling of 3.7% in Q4 2022 and a floor of 0.29% in Q3 2021.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.43% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.61%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: skyrocketed 307bps in 2022 and later tumbled -319bps in 2023.
  • Main Street Capital's Return on Sales stood at 0.64% in 2021, then soared by 482bps to 3.7% in 2022, then tumbled by -86bps to 0.51% in 2023, then dropped by -18bps to 0.42% in 2024, then increased by 1bps to 0.43% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.43% (Q4 2025), 0.41% (Q3 2025), and 0.42% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.