Growth Metrics

Qualcomm (QCOM) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Qualcomm has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.29% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.29% for Q4 2025, up 28.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.06% (up 6.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2024 was 0.0%, changed 0.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.29% at Qualcomm, up from 0.0% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for QCOM hit a ceiling of 0.32% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 0.02% in Q3 2023.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.0% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.08%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: plummeted -134bps in 2021 and later rose 28bps in 2025.
  • Qualcomm's Return on Sales stood at 0.2% in 2021, then crashed by -102bps to 0.0% in 2022, then plummeted by -32bps to 0.01% in 2023, then surged by 139bps to 0.0% in 2024, then surged by 13904bps to 0.29% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.29% (Q4 2025), 0.0% (Q2 2025), and 0.0% (Q1 2025) per Business Quant data.