Autohome (ATHM) Return on Capital Employed (2014 - 2025)
Autohome (ATHM) recorded quarterly Return on Capital Employed of 3.04% in Q4 2025, down 12.28% quarter-over-quarter from 3.46% in Q3 2025, and down 82.0% on a YoY basis from 16.87% in Q4 2024.
Autohome (ATHM) Return on Capital Employed (2014 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
Autohome's Return on Capital Employed history runs 12 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 3.04% for Q4 2025.
- In Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 82.0% year-over-year to 3.04%; the TTM figure through Dec 2025 stood at 3.04% (down 82.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 3.02%, up 143.0% from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed was 3.04% for Q4 2025 at Autohome, down from 3.46% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 14.42% in Q1 2021 to a low of 3.04% in Q4 2025.
- Historically, Return on Capital Employed has averaged 5.71% across 5 years, with a median of 4.6% in 2024.
- The sharpest annual moves came in 2021 and 2023: Return on Capital Employed slumped 986 bps in 2021, then soared 124 bps in 2023.
- A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 7.42% in 2021, then decreased by 30 bps to 5.21% in 2022, then decreased by 13 bps to 4.53% in 2023, then dropped by 15 bps to 3.85% in 2024, then retreated by 21 bps to 3.04% in 2025.
- The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 3.04% (Q4 2025), 3.46% (Q3 2025), and 3.25% (Q2 2025), per Business Quant data.
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Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | 3.04% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 3.46% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 3.25% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 3.62% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 3.85% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 4.23% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 4.67% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 4.41% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 4.53% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 5.00% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 5.04% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 5.13% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 5.21% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 3.76% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 4.41% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 5.90% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 7.42% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 10.45% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 12.39% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 14.42% |