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SM Energy (SM) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

SM Energy (SM) has disclosed Return on Assets for 16 consecutive years, with 0.07% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Assets fell 2.0% to 0.07% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.07%, a 2.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.07%, down 3.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Assets was 0.07% for Q4 2025 at SM Energy, down from 0.08% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Assets ranged from a high of 0.23% in Q3 2022 to a low of 0.15% in Q2 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.09% and a median of 0.1% in 2024 define the central range for Return on Assets.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Assets: surged 34bps in 2022, then dropped -10bps in 2023.
  • SM Energy's Return on Assets stood at 0.01% in 2021, then surged by 2680bps to 0.2% in 2022, then tumbled by -33bps to 0.13% in 2023, then dropped by -29bps to 0.09% in 2024, then fell by -24bps to 0.07% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SM's Return on Assets are 0.07% (Q4 2025), 0.08% (Q3 2025), and 0.09% (Q2 2025).