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Alaska Air (ALK) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Alaska Air (ALK) has disclosed Return on Invested Capital for 16 consecutive years, with 0.04% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Invested Capital changed 0.0% to 0.04% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.04%, a 0.0% change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.03%, down 2.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Invested Capital was 0.04% for Q4 2025 at Alaska Air, up from 0.03% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.08% in Q4 2021 to a low of 0.18% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.02% and a median of 0.04% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Invested Capital.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: decreased -27bps in 2021, then increased 26bps in 2022.
  • Alaska Air's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.08% in 2021, then crashed by -90bps to 0.01% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 412bps to 0.04% in 2023, then grew by 2bps to 0.04% in 2024, then dropped by -1bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ALK's Return on Invested Capital are 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.03% (Q3 2025), and 0.06% (Q2 2025).