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

Royal Caribbean Cruises' Return on Sales history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.16% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 6.0% year-over-year to 0.16%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.22%, up 7.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.24%, 6.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.16% at Royal Caribbean Cruises, down from 0.28% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 16.53% in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 5.81% in Q1 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.17% (2021), against an average of 0.79%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales soared 2233bps in 2022 before it plummeted -1655bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.86% in 2021, then rose by 11bps to 0.96% in 2022, then plummeted by -93bps to 0.07% in 2023, then surged by 41bps to 0.1% in 2024, then surged by 65bps to 0.16% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for RCL's Return on Sales are 0.16% (Q4 2025), 0.28% (Q3 2025), and 0.25% (Q2 2025).