Growth Metrics

Booking Holdings (BKNG) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Booking Holdings (BKNG) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 14 consecutive years, with 0.63% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • For the quarter ending Q3 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 8.0% year-over-year to 0.63%, compared with a TTM value of 0.63% through Sep 2025, up 8.0%, and an annual FY2024 reading of 0.73%, up 22.0% over the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.63% for Q3 2025 at Booking Holdings, down from 0.8% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.8% in Q2 2025 and bottomed at 0.04% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.41%, with a median of 0.45% recorded in 2023.
  • The sharpest move saw Return on Capital Employed plummeted -33bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 32bps in 2022.
  • Year by year, Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.14% in 2021, then surged by 131bps to 0.33% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 49bps to 0.5% in 2023, then rose by 24bps to 0.62% in 2024, then grew by 2bps to 0.63% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Capital Employed for BKNG at 0.63% in Q3 2025, 0.8% in Q2 2025, and 0.71% in Q1 2025.