Growth Metrics

National Research (NRC) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

National Research's Return on Sales history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.39% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 56.0% year-over-year to 0.39%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.03%, down 20.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.03%, 20.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.39% at National Research, down from 0.12% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.34% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 0.79% in Q4 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.19% (2023), against an average of 0.07%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales tumbled -113bps in 2021 before it skyrocketed 98bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.79% in 2021, then rose by 7bps to 0.74% in 2022, then soared by 132bps to 0.23% in 2023, then dropped by -24bps to 0.18% in 2024, then tumbled by -317bps to 0.39% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NRC's Return on Sales are 0.39% (Q4 2025), 0.12% (Q3 2025), and 0.0% (Q2 2025).