Growth Metrics

Westlake (WLK) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Westlake has reported Return on Sales over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.21% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.21% for Q4 2025, down 22.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.13% (down 18.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.13%, down 18.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.21% at Westlake, up from 0.27% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for WLK hit a ceiling of 0.2% in Q3 2021 and a floor of 0.27% in Q3 2025.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.09% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.05%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: grew 18bps in 2024 and later tumbled -31bps in 2025.
  • Westlake's Return on Sales stood at 0.19% in 2021, then crashed by -60bps to 0.08% in 2022, then crashed by -329bps to 0.17% in 2023, then soared by 104bps to 0.01% in 2024, then tumbled by -3249bps to 0.21% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.21% (Q4 2025), 0.27% (Q3 2025), and 0.04% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.