Growth Metrics

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

Nl Industries' Return on Sales history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.12% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Sales fell 3.0% year-over-year to 0.12%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.18%, up 6.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.47%, 47.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q3 2025 was 0.12% at Nl Industries, up from 0.03% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.55% in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 0.07% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.12% (2022), against an average of 0.16%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales plummeted -36bps in 2022 before it surged 36bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.45% in 2021, then tumbled by -73bps to 0.12% in 2022, then soared by 58bps to 0.19% in 2023, then soared by 189bps to 0.55% in 2024, then crashed by -79bps to 0.12% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NL's Return on Sales are 0.12% (Q3 2025), 0.03% (Q2 2025), and 0.03% (Q1 2025).