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Mercadolibre (MELI) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Mercadolibre has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.06% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.06% for Q4 2025, down 4.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.07% (down 2.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.07%, down 2.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.06% at Mercadolibre, up from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for MELI hit a ceiling of 0.11% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 0.02% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.06% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.06%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: decreased -5bps in 2021 and later grew 7bps in 2022.
  • Mercadolibre's Return on Sales stood at 0.02% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 414bps to 0.05% in 2022, then tumbled by -31bps to 0.04% in 2023, then surged by 182bps to 0.11% in 2024, then plummeted by -39bps to 0.06% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.06% (Q4 2025), 0.06% (Q3 2025), and 0.08% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.