Growth Metrics

Western Union (WU) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Western Union has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.57% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.57% for Q4 2025, down 70.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.06% (down 23.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.06%, down 23.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.57% at Western Union, down from 0.14% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for WU hit a ceiling of 0.27% in Q3 2024 and a floor of 0.57% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.15% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.09%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: crashed -72bps in 2022 and later soared 69bps in 2023.
  • Western Union's Return on Sales stood at 0.16% in 2021, then crashed by -456bps to 0.56% in 2022, then surged by 123bps to 0.13% in 2023, then increased by 5bps to 0.13% in 2024, then tumbled by -520bps to 0.57% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.57% (Q4 2025), 0.14% (Q3 2025), and 0.12% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.