Growth Metrics

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

Booking Holdings' Return on Capital Employed history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.72% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 10.0% year-over-year to 0.72%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.72%, up 10.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.75%, 2.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.72% in Q4 2025 per BKNG's latest filing, up from 0.63% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.8% in Q2 2025 to a low of 0.04% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.42%, with a median of 0.47% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -33bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 32bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it 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 rose by 16bps to 0.72% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for BKNG's Return on Capital Employed are 0.72% (Q4 2025), 0.63% (Q3 2025), and 0.8% (Q2 2025).