Celanese (CE) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)
Celanese's Return on Capital Employed history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.04% for Q4 2025.
- For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.04%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.04%, down 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.04%, 1.0% down from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed reached 0.04% in Q4 2025 per CE's latest filing, up from 0.12% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.21% in Q2 2022 to a low of 0.12% in Q3 2025.
- Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.06%, with a median of 0.07% recorded in 2022.
- Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: grew 11bps in 2022, then dropped -17bps in 2023.
- A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.14% in 2021, then tumbled by -51bps to 0.07% in 2022, then increased by 8bps to 0.08% in 2023, then tumbled by -146bps to 0.03% in 2024, then decreased by -23bps to 0.04% in 2025.
- Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CE's Return on Capital Employed are 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.12% (Q3 2025), and 0.04% (Q2 2025).