Main Street Capital CORP (MAIN) Return on Sales [ROS] (2021 - 2024)
Main Street Capital (MAIN) posted Return on Sales [ROS] of 368.83% for Q1 2026, down 30.54 percentage points from 399.37% a year earlier but up 21.61 percentage points from the prior quarter.
Main Street Capital CORP (MAIN) Return on Sales [ROS] (2021 - 2024) Analysis & Trends
For the trailing twelve months through Mar 31, 2026, Return on Sales [ROS] at Main Street Capital was 367.12%, down 14.89 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was 373.95%, up 12.21 percentage points from FY2024.
- Annual Return on Sales [ROS] shows a five-year change of +343.61 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In prior years, Main Street Capital's Return on Sales [ROS] was 361.74% in FY2024 (+41.68 pp), 320.06% in FY2023 (-42.27 pp), 362.33% in FY2022 (+318.53 pp) and 43.80% in FY2021 (+13.46 pp).
- Quarterly Return on Sales [ROS] has run from a low of 38.56% in Q3 2022 to a high of 423.98% in Q3 2024 over five years.
- On a year-over-year basis, Return on Sales [ROS] has declined in each of the last three quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +23.94 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Return on Sales [ROS] in the past five years was Q3 2023, with a gain of 307.84 percentage points; the weakest was Q3 2025, with a drop of 47.71 percentage points.
- According to Business Quant data, Return on Sales [ROS] for the three prior quarters was 347.22% (Q4 2025), 376.27% (Q3 2025) and 377.25% (Q2 2025).
Peer Comparison
Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2024 | 23.51% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 21.79% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 23.71% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 23.85% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 44.00% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 58.41% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 38.56% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 38.88% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 50.85% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 53.30% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 40.84% |
Main Street Capital CORP Return on Sales [ROS] API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=return-on-sales-%5Bros%5D&ticker=MAIN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "return-on-sales-[ros]", "ticker": "MAIN", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=return-on-sales-%5Bros%5D&ticker=MAIN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();