According to this post, the 20 LNBIG Lightning Network nodes have processed ~80k payments and collected 5.74 USD in fees in the last month (2018-12-29 to 2019-01-29). Extrapolating, that would be 68.88 USD per year.
According to this site (search for "LNBIG") those nodes seem to have 1.2 million USD worth of bitcoins locked in their channels (about 60% of the total channel capacity in the network):
# LNBIG.com nodes on 2019-01-31 03:20 UTC
NAME ! Cap BTC ! Cap % ! Cap USD ! NChans -------+---------+--------+------------+------- lnd-01 | 29.66 | 4.804 | 103404.70 | 372 lnd-02 | 28.42 | 4.604 | 99085.11 | 399 lnd-03 | 25.75 | 4.172 | 89802.56 | 335 lnd-05 | 16.81 | 2.724 | 58624.48 | 230 lnd-06 | 16.56 | 2.682 | 57729.65 | 209 lnd-07 | 16.58 | 2.686 | 57808.16 | 206 lnd-17 | 17.34 | 2.809 | 60453.77 | 225 lnd-19 | 17.16 | 2.780 | 59834.12 | 222 lnd-21 | 15.67 | 2.538 | 54637.36 | 185 lnd-22 | 17.65 | 2.859 | 61540.56 | 218 lnd-25 | 16.58 | 2.686 | 57810.69 | 213 lnd-26 | 16.05 | 2.600 | 55953.03 | 210 lnd-31 | 14.41 | 2.334 | 50242.52 | 184 lnd-32 | 16.27 | 2.636 | 56741.71 | 195 lnd-33 | 16.94 | 2.745 | 59078.13 | 213 lnd-34 | 16.42 | 2.660 | 57257.80 | 209 lnd-37 | 17.35 | 2.811 | 60502.20 | 169 lnd-38 | 16.70 | 2.705 | 58219.43 | 207 lnd-41 | 16.41 | 2.658 | 57204.66 | 148 lnd-42 | 16.26 | 2.634 | 56686.90 | 153 -------+---------+--------+------------+------- TOTAL | 364.99 | 59.127 | 1272617.54 | 4502 -------+---------+--------+------------+-------
It is not clear whether those locked funds were provided by the LNBIG nodes, or by those nodes that connect to them. Assuming the latter, and assuming that those other nodes are all hubs and together collected the same amount of fees as the LNBIG hubs, it seems that we can conclude that those 1.2 million USD of investment are yielding, at most, 137.76 USD of revenue per year.
That would be a return on investment of 0.011 percent per year (before costs and taxes).
The revenue would go up if the number of payments through those nodes were to increase. However, presumably the funds locked in those hubs would have to increase too.
And, just as a reminder, there is still no information at all about the number of attempted LN payments that failed for lack of a route with sufficient channel capacity.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/alljj5/return_on_investment_of_the_largest_ln_hubs_is/
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