Crown Castle (CCI) Return on Capital Employed (2009 - 2026)

Crown Castle has disclosed Return on Capital Employed across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 7.55% for Q1 2026.

• Return on Capital Employed for Q1 2026 came in at 7.55%, up 32.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 7.55% (up 32.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 7.51%, up 117.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Capital Employed came in at 7.55% for Q1 2026 at Crown Castle, down from 7.68% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 29.0% in Q2 2023 to a low of 5.08% in Q2 2024.
• The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 7.63% (2025), against an average of 10.04%.
• Across the five-year window, Return on Capital Employed jumped 1755 bps in 2022 and slumped 2392 bps in 2024, its largest moves.
• Crown Castle's Return on Capital Employed stood at 8.71% in 2022, then slumped by 33 bps to 5.82% in 2023, then rose by 10 bps to 6.37% in 2024, then gained by 20 bps to 7.68% in 2025, then retreated by 2 bps to 7.55% in 2026.
• The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 7.55% (Q1 2026), 7.68% (Q4 2025), and 7.78% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.