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Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY) has 8 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.09% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 2.0% year-over-year to 0.09%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.0%, down 4.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.03%, 3.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.09% in Q4 2025 per PLAY's latest filing, down from 0.02% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.15% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 0.36% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.03%, with a median of 0.05% recorded in 2023.
  • The widest YoY moves for Return on Sales: up 129bps in 2021, down -45bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.03% in 2021, then plummeted by -88bps to 0.0% in 2022, then crashed by -382bps to 0.01% in 2023, then plummeted by -548bps to 0.07% in 2024, then plummeted by -30bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.09% in Q4 2025, 0.02% in Q3 2025, and 0.04% in Q2 2025.