Growth Metrics

ServiceNow (NOW) EBT Margin (2011 - 2026)

ServiceNow posted quarterly EBT Margin of 17.85% for Q1 2026, down 12.0% year-on-year from 20.29% in Q1 2025, and up 17.73% on a QoQ basis from 15.16% in Q4 2025.

ServiceNow (NOW) has 16 years of EBT Margin data on file, last reported at 17.85% in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, EBT Margin fell 12.0% year-over-year to 17.85%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 17.04% (up 75.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 17.03%, up 121.0% from the prior year.
  • EBT Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 17.85%, up from 15.16% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBT Margin topped out at 20.37% in Q3 2025 and bottomed at 1.66% in Q2 2022.
  • The 5-year median for EBT Margin is 14.24% (2023), against an average of 12.65%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when EBT Margin tumbled 234 bps; it then surged 750 bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of EBT Margin shows it stood at 9.43% in 2022, then jumped by 51 bps to 14.24% in 2023, then advanced by 10 bps to 15.66% in 2024, then declined by 3 bps to 15.16% in 2025, then increased by 18 bps to 17.85% in 2026.
  • The last three EBT Margin figures came in at 17.85% (Q1 2026), 15.16% (Q4 2025), and 20.37% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) EBT Margin (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn 28.74%
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 23.39%
3 Uber Technologies 147.39 Bn 146.35 Bn 11.88 Bn 3.76%
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn -20.00%
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 17.85%
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 29.04%
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 37.86%
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 30.00%
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 47.29%
10 Datadog 78.54 Bn 73.78 Bn 797.20 Mn 5.86%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 17.85%
Dec 31, 2025 15.16%
Sep 30, 2025 20.37%
Jun 30, 2025 14.65%
Mar 31, 2025 17.97%
Dec 31, 2024 15.66%
Sep 30, 2024 18.45%
Jun 30, 2024 12.71%
Mar 31, 2024 16.33%
Dec 31, 2023 14.24%
Sep 30, 2023 13.07%
Jun 30, 2023 8.09%
Mar 31, 2023 8.97%
Dec 31, 2022 9.43%
Sep 30, 2022 5.57%
Jun 30, 2022 1.66%
Mar 31, 2022 4.94%
Dec 31, 2021 1.98%
Sep 30, 2021 4.50%
Jun 30, 2021 3.55%
Mar 31, 2021 7.28%
Dec 31, 2020 1.12%
Sep 30, 2020 2.26%
Jun 30, 2020 5.79%
Mar 31, 2020 4.59%
Dec 31, 2019 3.57%
Sep 30, 2019 6.86%
Jun 30, 2019 -1.96%
Mar 31, 2019 -1.45%
Dec 31, 2018 0.27%
Sep 30, 2018 1.07%
Jun 30, 2018 -6.47%
Mar 31, 2018 -1.25%
Dec 31, 2017 -2.40%
Sep 30, 2017 -4.04%
Jun 30, 2017 -12.85%
Mar 31, 2017 -5.87%
Dec 31, 2016 1.71%
Sep 30, 2016 -9.33%
Jun 30, 2016 -15.90%
Mar 31, 2016 -108.40%
Dec 31, 2015 6.34%
Sep 30, 2015 -15.25%
Jun 30, 2015 -24.49%
Mar 31, 2015 -178.14%
Dec 31, 2014 -21.84%
Sep 30, 2014 -142.70%
Jun 30, 2014 -29.81%
Mar 31, 2014 -30.30%
Dec 31, 2013 -6.40%
Sep 30, 2013 -12.63%
Jun 30, 2013 -94.60%
Mar 31, 2013 -14.89%
Dec 31, 2012 -12.08%
Sep 30, 2012 -19.79%
Mar 31, 2012 -64.51%
Sep 30, 2011 7.50%
Jun 30, 2011 49.56%