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Markel (MKL) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Markel (MKL) has disclosed Return on Sales for 16 consecutive years, with 0.32% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales rose 53.0% to 0.32% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.26%, a 21.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.31%, down 2.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.32% for Q4 2025 at Markel, up from 0.49% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 5.73% in Q4 2022 to a low of 0.49% in Q3 2025.
  • A 5-year average of 0.41% and a median of 0.14% in 2025 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: soared 525bps in 2022, then crashed -560bps in 2023.
  • Markel's Return on Sales stood at 0.48% in 2021, then soared by 1086bps to 5.73% in 2022, then tumbled by -98bps to 0.12% in 2023, then plummeted by -271bps to 0.21% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 252bps to 0.32% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MKL's Return on Sales are 0.32% (Q4 2025), 0.49% (Q3 2025), and 0.15% (Q2 2025).