Growth Metrics

Steel Dynamics (STLD) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Steel Dynamics' Return on Assets history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.09% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Assets fell 2.0% year-over-year to 0.09%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.09%, down 2.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.1%, 4.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Assets for Q4 2025 was 0.09% at Steel Dynamics, down from 0.09% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Assets topped out at 0.38% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 0.08% in Q2 2025.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Assets is 0.16% (2021), against an average of 0.2%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Assets increased 28bps in 2022 before it dropped -17bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Assets shows it stood at 0.34% in 2021, then dropped by -11bps to 0.3% in 2022, then plummeted by -47bps to 0.16% in 2023, then crashed by -31bps to 0.11% in 2024, then decreased by -19bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for STLD's Return on Assets are 0.09% (Q4 2025), 0.09% (Q3 2025), and 0.08% (Q2 2025).