Gilead Sciences GILD Return on assets
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Gilead Sciences’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Gilead Sciences’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Gilead Sciences's return on assets?
- Gilead Sciences (GILD) reported return on assets of 16.4% in Q1 2026.
- How has Gilead Sciences's return on assets changed year-over-year?
- Gilead Sciences's return on assets increased by 54.5% year-over-year, from 10.6% to 16.4%.
- What is the long-term trend for Gilead Sciences's return on assets?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Gilead Sciences's return on assets has grown at a 14.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 29.5% to 50.9%.
- What does return on assets mean?
- How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
- How do you interpret return on assets?
- Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
- How does return on assets compare across companies?
- Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.