Growth Metrics

ServiceNow (NOW) Net Margin (2011 - 2026)

ServiceNow posted quarterly Net Margin of 12.44% for Q1 2026, down 246.0% year-on-year from 8.52% in Q1 2025, and up 10.69% on a QoQ basis from 11.24% in Q4 2025.

ServiceNow (NOW) has 16 years of Net Margin data on file, last reported at 12.44% in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Net Margin fell 246.0% year-over-year to 12.44%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 12.59% (down 82.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 13.16%, up 19.0% from the prior year.
  • Net Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 12.44%, up from 11.24% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Net Margin topped out at 48.56% in Q2 2023 and bottomed at 1.14% in Q2 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Net Margin is 11.98% (2025), against an average of 12.53%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when Net Margin jumped 4742 bps; it then plunged 3858 bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Net Margin shows it stood at 7.73% in 2022, then jumped by 57 bps to 12.11% in 2023, then climbed by 7 bps to 12.99% in 2024, then declined by 13 bps to 11.24% in 2025, then grew by 11 bps to 12.44% in 2026.
  • The last three Net Margin figures came in at 12.44% (Q1 2026), 11.24% (Q4 2025), and 14.73% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Net Margin (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn 20.22%
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 17.47%
3 Uber Technologies 151.10 Bn 150.06 Bn 11.88 Bn 2.29%
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn -18.33%
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 12.44%
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 22.77%
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 29.52%
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 22.90%
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 35.80%
10 Datadog 78.54 Bn 73.78 Bn 797.20 Mn 5.22%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 12.44%
Dec 31, 2025 11.24%
Sep 30, 2025 14.73%
Jun 30, 2025 11.98%
Mar 31, 2025 14.90%
Dec 31, 2024 12.99%
Sep 30, 2024 15.45%
Jun 30, 2024 9.97%
Mar 31, 2024 13.33%
Dec 31, 2023 12.11%
Sep 30, 2023 10.58%
Jun 30, 2023 48.56%
Mar 31, 2023 7.16%
Dec 31, 2022 7.73%
Sep 30, 2022 4.37%
Jun 30, 2022 1.14%
Mar 31, 2022 4.36%
Dec 31, 2021 1.61%
Sep 30, 2021 4.17%
Jun 30, 2021 4.19%
Mar 31, 2021 6.03%
Dec 31, 2020 1.36%
Sep 30, 2020 1.13%
Jun 30, 2020 3.83%
Mar 31, 2020 4.59%
Dec 31, 2019 62.97%
Sep 30, 2019 4.58%
Jun 30, 2019 -1.33%
Mar 31, 2019 -0.20%
Dec 31, 2018 0.98%
Sep 30, 2018 1.25%
Jun 30, 2018 -8.36%
Mar 31, 2018 1.81%
Dec 31, 2017 -3.16%
Sep 30, 2017 -4.51%
Jun 30, 2017 -12.45%
Mar 31, 2017 -5.55%
Dec 31, 2016 0.97%
Sep 30, 2016 -10.14%
Jun 30, 2016 -14.54%
Mar 31, 2016 -108.98%
Dec 31, 2015 6.64%
Sep 30, 2015 -15.71%
Jun 30, 2015 -25.10%
Mar 31, 2015 -181.22%
Dec 31, 2014 -22.56%
Sep 30, 2014 -144.82%
Jun 30, 2014 -30.20%
Mar 31, 2014 -31.14%
Dec 31, 2013 -6.55%
Sep 30, 2013 -13.22%
Jun 30, 2013 -97.98%
Mar 31, 2013 -15.54%
Dec 31, 2012 -13.21%
Sep 30, 2012 -20.29%
Mar 31, 2012 -73.43%
Sep 30, 2011 3.13%
Jun 30, 2011 10.43%