Growth Metrics

Altria (MO) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Altria (MO) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.19% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales fell 42.0% to 0.19% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.3%, a 20.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.3%, down 17.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.19% for Q4 2025 at Altria, down from 0.39% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.62% in Q4 2024 to a low of 0.4% in Q3 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.29% and a median of 0.33% in 2022 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: soared 44bps in 2022, then crashed -42bps in 2025.
  • Altria's Return on Sales stood at 0.26% in 2021, then soared by 70bps to 0.44% in 2022, then fell by -22bps to 0.34% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 79bps to 0.62% in 2024, then crashed by -69bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MO's Return on Sales are 0.19% (Q4 2025), 0.39% (Q3 2025), and 0.39% (Q2 2025).