Growth Metrics

Crown Castle (CCI) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Crown Castle's Return on Invested Capital history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.09% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 5.0% year-over-year to 0.09%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.09%, down 5.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.09%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.09% at Crown Castle, down from 0.18% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 3.77% in Q2 2025 and bottomed at 0.04% in Q4 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.11% (2022), against an average of 0.31%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Invested Capital dropped -21bps in 2024 before it soared 367bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.04% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 99bps to 0.08% in 2022, then crashed by -53bps to 0.04% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 264bps to 0.14% in 2024, then crashed by -36bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CCI's Return on Invested Capital are 0.09% (Q4 2025), 0.18% (Q3 2025), and 3.77% (Q2 2025).