Growth Metrics

Aterian (ATER) Return on Capital Employed (2019 - 2025)

Aterian has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 7 years, most recently at 0.87% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.87% for Q4 2025, down 49.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.87% (down 49.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.71%, down 38.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.87% at Aterian, down from 0.46% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for ATER hit a ceiling of 1.28% in Q2 2024 and a floor of 0.98% in Q3 2022.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.32% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.17%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: skyrocketed 363bps in 2021 and later plummeted -171bps in 2025.
  • Aterian's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.15% in 2021, then plummeted by -168bps to 0.39% in 2022, then increased by 13bps to 0.34% in 2023, then decreased by -10bps to 0.37% in 2024, then crashed by -131bps to 0.87% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.87% (Q4 2025), 0.46% (Q3 2025), and 0.43% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.