Blackline (BL) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)
Blackline posted quarterly Return on Capital Employed of 2.4% for Q1 2026, up 66.0% year-on-year from 1.44% in Q1 2025, and down 2.85% on a QoQ basis from 2.47% in Q4 2025.
Blackline (BL) has 11 years of Return on Capital Employed data on file, last reported at 2.4% in Q1 2026.
- For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Return on Capital Employed rose 66.0% year-over-year to 2.4%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 2.4% (up 66.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 2.33%, up 113.0% from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed for Q1 2026 stood at 2.4%, down from 2.47% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 2.47% in Q4 2025 and bottomed at 4.85% in Q3 2022.
- The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 1.15% (2024), against an average of 0.02%.
- The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Return on Capital Employed plunged 285 bps; it then soared 519 bps in 2023.
- A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 3.64% in 2022, then soared by 128 bps to 1.01% in 2023, then jumped by 37 bps to 1.39% in 2024, then surged by 78 bps to 2.47% in 2025, then retreated by 3 bps to 2.4% in 2026.
- The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 2.4% (Q1 2026), 2.47% (Q4 2025), and 2.27% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | ROCE (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sap Se | 253.17 Bn | 235.20 Bn | 8.16 Bn | 40.19% |
| 2 | Salesforce | 171.07 Bn | 161.50 Bn | 8.69 Bn | 12.51% |
| 3 | Uber Technologies | 151.10 Bn | 150.06 Bn | 11.88 Bn | 12.81% |
| 4 | Shopify | 134.25 Bn | 128.50 Bn | 1.55 Bn | 12.40% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 105.72 Bn | 100.54 Bn | 2.83 Bn | 12.32% |
| 6 | Cadence Design Systems | 101.64 Bn | 100.23 Bn | 1.26 Bn | 17.43% |
| 7 | Adobe | 100.35 Bn | 93.46 Bn | 5.73 Bn | 49.21% |
| 8 | Automatic Data Processing | 90.91 Bn | 87.68 Bn | 2.87 Bn | -20.99% |
| 9 | Intuit | 88.30 Bn | 81.52 Bn | 6.77 Bn | 23.43% |
| 10 | Blackline | 1.72 Bn | 1.22 Bn | 139.15 Mn | 2.40% |
Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2026 | 2.40% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 2.47% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 2.27% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 2.25% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 1.74% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 1.39% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 1.78% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 1.15% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 2.12% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 1.01% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 0.35% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | -0.97% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | -2.93% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | -3.64% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | -4.85% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | -3.13% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | -3.01% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | -2.64% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | -1.99% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | -2.57% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | -2.69% |
| Dec 31, 2020 | -2.37% |
| Sep 30, 2020 | -2.08% |
| Jun 30, 2020 | -2.84% |
| Mar 31, 2020 | -3.19% |
| Dec 31, 2019 | -3.54% |
| Sep 30, 2019 | -5.53% |
| Jun 30, 2019 | -8.47% |
| Mar 31, 2019 | -9.39% |
| Dec 31, 2018 | -9.18% |
| Sep 30, 2018 | -7.86% |
| Jun 30, 2018 | -10.27% |
| Mar 31, 2018 | -9.42% |
| Dec 31, 2017 | -9.90% |
| Sep 30, 2017 | -7.98% |
| Jun 30, 2017 | -6.23% |
| Mar 31, 2017 | -6.63% |
| Dec 31, 2016 | -8.67% |