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Noodles (NDLS) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Noodles' Return on Sales history spans 14 years, with the latest figure at 0.06% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 2.0% year-over-year to 0.06%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.09%, down 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.09%, 1.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.06% in Q4 2025 per NDLS's latest filing, up from 0.07% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.05% in Q2 2021 to a low of 0.14% in Q3 2025.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.04%, with a median of 0.04% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: increased 21bps in 2021, then fell -10bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.04% in 2021, then soared by 115bps to 0.01% in 2022, then fell by -11bps to 0.01% in 2023, then tumbled by -1554bps to 0.08% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 30bps to 0.06% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NDLS's Return on Sales are 0.06% (Q4 2025), 0.07% (Q3 2025), and 0.14% (Q3 2025).