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Stepan (SCL) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Stepan's Return on Sales history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.04% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 13.0% year-over-year to 0.04%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.03%, up 3.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.03%, 3.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.04% in Q4 2025 per SCL's latest filing, up from 0.02% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.08% in Q1 2021 to a low of 0.12% in Q4 2022.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.02%, with a median of 0.03% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: fell -19bps in 2022, then rose 13bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.07% in 2021, then tumbled by -270bps to 0.12% in 2022, then soared by 56bps to 0.05% in 2023, then tumbled by -82bps to 0.09% in 2024, then surged by 142bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SCL's Return on Sales are 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.02% (Q3 2025), and 0.02% (Q2 2025).