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

Steel Dynamics (STLD) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.28% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Sales rose 18.0% to 0.28% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.02% through Dec 2025, up 1.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.02% for FY2025, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales hit 0.28% in Q4 2025 for Steel Dynamics, down from 0.08% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.2% in Q1 2022 to a low of 0.9% in Q4 2022.
  • Historically, Return on Sales has averaged 0.0% across 5 years, with a median of 0.12% in 2023.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: tumbled -61bps in 2021 and later skyrocketed 100bps in 2023.
  • Year by year, Return on Sales stood at 0.52% in 2021, then crashed by -73bps to 0.9% in 2022, then surged by 112bps to 0.11% in 2023, then crashed by -522bps to 0.46% in 2024, then surged by 40bps to 0.28% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Sales for STLD at 0.28% in Q4 2025, 0.08% in Q3 2025, and 0.07% in Q2 2025.