Growth Metrics

ServiceNow (NOW) Gross Margin (2011 - 2026)

ServiceNow posted quarterly Gross Margin of 75.07% for Q1 2026, down 385.0% year-on-year from 26.34% in Q1 2025, and down 2.03% on a QoQ basis from 76.63% in Q4 2025.

ServiceNow (NOW) has 16 years of Gross Margin data on file, last reported at 75.07% in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Gross Margin fell 385.0% year-over-year to 75.07%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 76.56% (down 236.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 77.53%, down 164.0% from the prior year.
  • Gross Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 75.07%, down from 76.63% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Gross Margin topped out at 80.02% in Q1 2024 and bottomed at 75.07% in Q1 2026.
  • The 5-year median for Gross Margin is 78.57% (2022), against an average of 78.21%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Gross Margin jumped 178 bps; it then plunged 385 bps in 2026.
  • A 5-year view of Gross Margin shows it stood at 78.61% in 2022, then increased by 0 bps to 78.83% in 2023, then decreased by 0 bps to 78.66% in 2024, then slipped by 3 bps to 76.63% in 2025, then decreased by 2 bps to 75.07% in 2026.
  • The last three Gross Margin figures came in at 75.07% (Q1 2026), 76.63% (Q4 2025), and 77.28% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Gross Margin (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn 72.98%
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 77.61%
3 Uber Technologies 151.10 Bn 150.06 Bn 11.88 Bn 89.96%
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn 48.77%
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 75.07%
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 85.65%
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 89.62%
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 48.28%
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 79.05%
10 Datadog 78.54 Bn 73.78 Bn 797.20 Mn 79.21%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 75.07%
Dec 31, 2025 76.63%
Sep 30, 2025 77.28%
Jun 30, 2025 77.48%
Mar 31, 2025 78.92%
Dec 31, 2024 78.66%
Sep 30, 2024 79.12%
Jun 30, 2024 78.99%
Mar 31, 2024 80.02%
Dec 31, 2023 78.83%
Sep 30, 2023 78.32%
Jun 30, 2023 78.09%
Mar 31, 2023 79.10%
Dec 31, 2022 78.61%
Sep 30, 2022 78.15%
Jun 30, 2022 77.80%
Mar 31, 2022 78.57%
Dec 31, 2021 76.83%
Sep 30, 2021 76.85%
Jun 30, 2021 76.65%
Mar 31, 2021 78.01%
Dec 31, 2020 77.68%
Sep 30, 2020 78.13%
Jun 30, 2020 78.24%
Mar 31, 2020 78.68%
Dec 31, 2019 77.84%
Sep 30, 2019 77.33%
Jun 30, 2019 76.24%
Mar 31, 2019 76.39%
Dec 31, 2018 76.50%
Sep 30, 2018 76.55%
Jun 30, 2018 75.73%
Mar 31, 2018 75.65%
Dec 31, 2017 75.57%
Sep 30, 2017 74.11%
Jun 30, 2017 72.75%
Mar 31, 2017 80.68%
Dec 31, 2016 54.65%
Sep 30, 2016 71.25%
Jun 30, 2016 71.68%
Mar 31, 2016 69.18%
Dec 31, 2015 -34.61%
Sep 30, 2015 68.64%
Jun 30, 2015 67.69%
Mar 31, 2015 421.33%
Dec 31, 2014 64.32%
Sep 30, 2014 397.34%
Jun 30, 2014 64.66%
Mar 31, 2014 61.81%
Dec 31, 2013 21.57%
Sep 30, 2013 62.63%
Jun 30, 2013 303.14%
Mar 31, 2013 62.41%
Dec 31, 2012 57.02%
Sep 30, 2012 57.15%
Mar 31, 2012 332.00%
Sep 30, 2011 575.92%
Jun 30, 2011 424.68%