Growth Metrics

Unitedhealth (UNH) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Unitedhealth (UNH) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.0% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales fell 6.0% to 0.0% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.03%, a 1.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.03%, down 1.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.0% for Q4 2025 at Unitedhealth, down from 0.02% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.42% in Q4 2023 to a low of 0.01% in Q1 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.07% and a median of 0.06% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: surged 37bps in 2023, then tumbled -36bps in 2024.
  • Unitedhealth's Return on Sales stood at 0.04% in 2021, then grew by 23bps to 0.05% in 2022, then soared by 742bps to 0.42% in 2023, then plummeted by -86bps to 0.06% in 2024, then crashed by -97bps to 0.0% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for UNH's Return on Sales are 0.0% (Q4 2025), 0.02% (Q3 2025), and 0.03% (Q2 2025).