Growth Metrics

ServiceNow (NOW) FCF Margin (2011 - 2026)

ServiceNow posted quarterly FCF Margin of 41.64% for Q1 2026, down 602.0% year-on-year from 8.3% in Q1 2025, and down 25.71% on a QoQ basis from 56.05% in Q4 2025.

ServiceNow (NOW) has 16 years of FCF Margin data on file, last reported at 41.64% in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Margin fell 602.0% year-over-year to 41.64%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 33.48% (up 179.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 34.46%, up 337.0% from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 41.64%, down from 56.05% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 66.64% in Q4 2023 and bottomed at 11.88% in Q2 2024.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 40.79% (2023), against an average of 34.97%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when FCF Margin soared 1629 bps; it then slumped 1990 bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 57.84% in 2022, then gained by 15 bps to 66.64% in 2023, then retreated by 30 bps to 46.74% in 2024, then grew by 20 bps to 56.05% in 2025, then dropped by 26 bps to 41.64% in 2026.
  • The last three FCF Margin figures came in at 41.64% (Q1 2026), 56.05% (Q4 2025), and 16.97% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Margin (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn 36.77%
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 47.52%
3 Uber Technologies 151.10 Bn 150.06 Bn 11.88 Bn 17.31%
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn 15.02%
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 41.64%
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 20.82%
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 45.65%
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 36.83%
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 61.18%
10 Datadog 78.54 Bn 73.78 Bn 797.20 Mn 32.12%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 41.64%
Dec 31, 2025 56.05%
Sep 30, 2025 16.97%
Jun 30, 2025 16.36%
Mar 31, 2025 47.67%
Dec 31, 2024 46.74%
Sep 30, 2024 16.77%
Jun 30, 2024 11.88%
Mar 31, 2024 48.10%
Dec 31, 2023 66.64%
Sep 30, 2023 12.50%
Jun 30, 2023 27.40%
Mar 31, 2023 40.79%
Dec 31, 2022 57.84%
Sep 30, 2022 15.84%
Jun 30, 2022 25.51%
Mar 31, 2022 45.88%
Dec 31, 2021 66.48%
Sep 30, 2021 14.95%
Jun 30, 2021 9.23%
Mar 31, 2021 51.40%
Dec 31, 2020 74.80%
Sep 30, 2020 4.43%
Jun 30, 2020 25.51%
Mar 31, 2020 39.10%
Dec 31, 2019 35.96%
Sep 30, 2019 6.35%
Jun 30, 2019 28.88%
Mar 31, 2019 42.06%
Dec 31, 2018 40.38%
Sep 30, 2018 31.03%
Jun 30, 2018 9.80%
Mar 31, 2018 38.32%
Dec 31, 2017 27.34%
Sep 30, 2017 19.31%
Jun 30, 2017 15.28%
Mar 31, 2017 46.12%
Dec 31, 2016 7.00%
Sep 30, 2016 28.26%
Jun 30, 2016 -39.01%
Mar 31, 2016 16.22%
Dec 31, 2015 -18.93%
Sep 30, 2015 23.99%
Jun 30, 2015 30.51%
Mar 31, 2015 183.71%
Dec 31, 2014 20.60%
Sep 30, 2014 24.36%
Jun 30, 2014 15.44%
Mar 31, 2014 9.44%
Dec 31, 2013 19.34%
Sep 30, 2013 -11.31%
Jun 30, 2013 46.40%
Mar 31, 2013 10.32%
Dec 31, 2012 -28.77%
Mar 31, 2012 164.78%
Sep 30, 2011 -46.17%