Growth Metrics

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

Nl Industries' Return on Equity history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.07% for Q2 2025.

  • For Q2 2025, Return on Equity rose 2.0% year-over-year to 0.07%; the TTM value through Jun 2025 reached 0.07%, up 2.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.18%, 17.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Equity for Q2 2025 was 0.07% at Nl Industries, down from 0.07% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Equity topped out at 0.14% in Q4 2021 and bottomed at 0.02% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Equity is 0.06% (2022), against an average of 0.06%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Equity increased 9bps in 2021 before it dropped -11bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Equity shows it stood at 0.14% in 2021, then plummeted by -75bps to 0.04% in 2022, then decreased by -20bps to 0.03% in 2023, then surged by 177bps to 0.08% in 2024, then dropped by -11bps to 0.07% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NL's Return on Equity are 0.07% (Q2 2025), 0.07% (Q1 2025), and 0.08% (Q4 2024).