Growth Metrics

Plug Power (PLUG) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Plug Power (PLUG) has disclosed Return on Sales for 16 consecutive years, with 4.02% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales rose 296.0% to 4.02% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 2.39%, a 96.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 2.39%, up 96.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 4.02% for Q4 2025 at Plug Power, down from 2.05% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.74% in Q3 2021 to a low of 6.98% in Q4 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 1.76% and a median of 1.2% in 2021 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: crashed -514bps in 2021, then soared 296bps in 2025.
  • Plug Power's Return on Sales stood at 1.19% in 2021, then rose by 15bps to 1.01% in 2022, then plummeted by -186bps to 2.89% in 2023, then tumbled by -141bps to 6.98% in 2024, then surged by 42bps to 4.02% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for PLUG's Return on Sales are 4.02% (Q4 2025), 2.05% (Q3 2025), and 1.31% (Q2 2025).