Adobe (ADBE) Return on Invested Capital (2010 - 2026)

Adobe's (ADBE) quarterly Return on Invested Capital came in at 0.04% in Q2 2026, up 2.0% year-on-year from 0.04% in Q2 2025, and up 32.61% on a QoQ basis from 0.03% in Q3 2025.

Adobe (ADBE) Return on Invested Capital (2010 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Adobe (ADBE) has 13 years of Return on Invested Capital data on file, last reported at 0.04% in Q2 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Invested Capital rose 2.0% year-over-year to 0.04% in Q2 2026; TTM through May 2026 was 0.04%, a 2.0% increase from a year earlier, with the FY2014 full-year figure at 0.0%, down 22.0% from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q2 2026 stood at 0.04%, up from 0.03% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for ADBE reached as high as 0.07% in Q3 2023 and fell as low as 0.01% in Q4 2024.
  • Historically, Return on Invested Capital has averaged 0.03% across 5 years, with a median of 0.03% in 2022.
  • Across the five-year window, Return on Invested Capital advanced 3 bps in 2023 and fell 5 bps in 2024, its largest moves.
  • Year by year, Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.03% in 2022, then jumped by 144 bps to 0.07% in 2023, then tumbled by 85 bps to 0.01% in 2024, then soared by 198 bps to 0.03% in 2025, then surged by 33 bps to 0.04% in 2026.
  • Per Business Quant data, the three most recent Return on Invested Capital figures were 0.04% in Q2 2026, 0.03% in Q3 2025, and 0.02% in Q2 2025.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROIC (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 208.91 Bn 189.27 Bn 8.16 Bn 0.01%
2 Full Truck Alliance 188.77 Bn 186.13 Bn - 0.80%
3 Shopify 145.98 Bn 140.23 Bn 1.55 Bn 0.01%
4 Uber Technologies 141.48 Bn 140.44 Bn 5.95 Bn -
5 Salesforce 128.51 Bn 116.67 Bn 8.56 Bn 0.02%
6 ServiceNow 98.38 Bn 93.20 Bn 2.82 Bn -
7 Automatic Data Processing 97.56 Bn 94.34 Bn 2.87 Bn -
8 Snowflake 91.55 Bn 88.59 Bn 926.45 Mn -
9 Cadence Design Systems 89.91 Bn 88.50 Bn 1.41 Bn -
10 Adobe 85.38 Bn 79.75 Bn 5.90 Bn 0.04%

Historic Data

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DateValue
May 29, 2026 0.04%
Aug 29, 2025 0.03%
May 30, 2025 0.02%
Feb 28, 2025 0.01%
Nov 29, 2024 0.01%
Aug 30, 2024 0.01%
May 31, 2024 0.02%
Sep 1, 2023 0.07%
Jun 2, 2023 0.04%
Mar 3, 2023 0.03%
Dec 2, 2022 0.03%
Sep 2, 2022 0.04%
Jun 3, 2022 0.07%
Aug 28, 2020 0.01%
May 29, 2020 0.00%
Feb 28, 2020 0.00%
Nov 29, 2019 0.00%
Aug 30, 2019 0.01%
May 31, 2019 0.01%
Nov 27, 2015 0.01%