Growth Metrics

Cardlytics (CDLX) Return on Capital Employed (2018 - 2025)

Cardlytics' Return on Capital Employed history spans 8 years, with the latest figure at 0.48% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 31.0% year-over-year to 0.48%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.48%, up 31.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.39%, 19.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.48% in Q4 2025 per CDLX's latest filing, up from 0.51% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.06% in Q1 2022 to a low of 0.97% in Q1 2023.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.47%, with a median of 0.42% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: crashed -90bps in 2023, then skyrocketed 60bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.13% in 2021, then plummeted by -444bps to 0.73% in 2022, then surged by 57bps to 0.31% in 2023, then tumbled by -153bps to 0.79% in 2024, then soared by 39bps to 0.48% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CDLX's Return on Capital Employed are 0.48% (Q4 2025), 0.51% (Q3 2025), and 0.78% (Q2 2025).