Growth Metrics

Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.16% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Sales rose 6.0% to 0.16% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.22% through Dec 2025, up 7.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.24% for FY2025, 6.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales hit 0.16% in Q4 2025 for Royal Caribbean Cruises, down from 0.28% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 14.74% in Q1 2021 to a low of 0.24% in Q2 2022.
  • Historically, Return on Sales has averaged 1.51% across 5 years, with a median of 0.17% in 2025.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: soared 3999bps in 2021 and later plummeted -843bps in 2022.
  • Year by year, Return on Sales stood at 2.87% in 2021, then tumbled by -105bps to 0.16% in 2022, then soared by 144bps to 0.07% in 2023, then soared by 41bps to 0.1% in 2024, then surged by 65bps to 0.16% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Sales for RCL at 0.16% in Q4 2025, 0.28% in Q3 2025, and 0.25% in Q2 2025.