Growth Metrics

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.37% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.37% for Q4 2025, up 6.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.33% (up 38.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.33%, up 38.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.37% at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, up from 0.35% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for VRTX hit a ceiling of 0.43% in Q3 2021 and a floor of 1.36% in Q2 2024.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.37% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.26%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: crashed -173bps in 2024 and later soared 171bps in 2025.
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Return on Sales stood at 0.37% in 2021, then dropped by -4bps to 0.36% in 2022, then increased by 8bps to 0.38% in 2023, then dropped by -19bps to 0.31% in 2024, then grew by 19bps to 0.37% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.37% (Q4 2025), 0.35% (Q3 2025), and 0.35% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.