Growth Metrics

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (BWNB) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' Return on Invested Capital history spans 11 years, with the latest figure at 0.33% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 34.0% year-over-year to 0.33%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.33%, down 34.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.28%, 34.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.33% in Q4 2025 per BWNB's latest filing, down from 0.11% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.85% in Q1 2023 to a low of 6.32% in Q2 2023.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.5%, with a median of 0.01% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: crashed -693bps in 2023, then soared 649bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.14% in 2021, then crashed by -894bps to 1.14% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 112bps to 0.14% in 2023, then tumbled by -91bps to 0.01% in 2024, then plummeted by -2653bps to 0.33% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for BWNB's Return on Invested Capital are 0.33% (Q4 2025), 0.11% (Q3 2025), and 0.06% (Q2 2025).