Growth Metrics

Rocket Lab (RKLB) Return on Sales (2020 - 2025)

Rocket Lab has reported Return on Sales over the past 6 years, most recently at 0.29% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.29% for Q4 2025, up 10.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.33% (up 11.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.33%, up 11.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.29% at Rocket Lab, down from 0.12% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for RKLB hit a ceiling of 0.12% in Q3 2025 and a floor of 16.64% in Q3 2021.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.57% (2022), compared with a mean of 1.4%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: plummeted -1546bps in 2021 and later surged 1609bps in 2022.
  • Rocket Lab's Return on Sales stood at 0.24% in 2021, then tumbled by -195bps to 0.72% in 2022, then decreased by -17bps to 0.84% in 2023, then surged by 53bps to 0.4% in 2024, then rose by 25bps to 0.29% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.29% (Q4 2025), 0.12% (Q3 2025), and 0.46% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.