Growth Metrics

MediaAlpha (MAX) Return on Sales (2019 - 2025)

MediaAlpha has reported Return on Sales over the past 7 years, most recently at 0.12% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.12% for Q4 2025, up 9.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.02% (changed 0.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.02%, changed 0.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.12% at MediaAlpha, up from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for MAX hit a ceiling of 0.12% in Q4 2025 and a floor of 0.84% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.03% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.09%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: crashed -81bps in 2022 and later surged 81bps in 2023.
  • MediaAlpha's Return on Sales stood at 0.02% in 2021, then plummeted by -3303bps to 0.84% in 2022, then surged by 97bps to 0.03% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 186bps to 0.02% in 2024, then surged by 381bps to 0.12% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.12% (Q4 2025), 0.06% (Q3 2025), and 0.09% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.