Growth Metrics

Netflix (NFLX) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Netflix has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.2% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.2% for Q4 2025, up 2.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.24% (up 2.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.24%, up 2.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.2% at Netflix, down from 0.22% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for NFLX hit a ceiling of 0.28% in Q2 2025 and a floor of 0.01% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.2% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.19%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: rose 12bps in 2021 and later fell -7bps in 2022.
  • Netflix's Return on Sales stood at 0.08% in 2021, then crashed by -91bps to 0.01% in 2022, then surged by 1408bps to 0.11% in 2023, then surged by 72bps to 0.18% in 2024, then grew by 10bps to 0.2% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.2% (Q4 2025), 0.22% (Q3 2025), and 0.28% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.