Growth Metrics

Nl Industries (NL) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Nl Industries' Return on Assets history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.06% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Assets rose 2.0% year-over-year to 0.06%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.06%, up 2.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.12%, 12.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Assets for Q3 2025 was 0.06% at Nl Industries, roughly flat from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Assets topped out at 0.09% in Q4 2021 and bottomed at 0.01% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Assets is 0.03% (2024), against an average of 0.04%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Assets rose 8bps in 2021 before it decreased -7bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Assets shows it stood at 0.09% in 2021, then plummeted by -82bps to 0.02% in 2022, then grew by 13bps to 0.02% in 2023, then surged by 182bps to 0.05% in 2024, then grew by 4bps to 0.06% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NL's Return on Assets are 0.06% (Q3 2025), 0.06% (Q2 2025), and 0.05% (Q1 2025).