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Celanese (CE) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Celanese filings provide 17 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 4.28% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 79.0% to 4.28% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 4.28%, a 79.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 4.23%, down 77.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 4.28% in Q4 2025 for Celanese, up from 11.93% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 21.22% in Q2 2022 to a low of 11.93% in Q3 2025.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 6.98% (2022), compared with a mean of 5.97%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: skyrocketed 1147bps in 2022 and later plummeted -1690bps in 2023.
  • Celanese's Return on Capital Employed stood at 14.39% in 2021, then tumbled by -51bps to 6.98% in 2022, then rose by 8bps to 7.57% in 2023, then tumbled by -146bps to 3.49% in 2024, then dropped by -23bps to 4.28% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 4.28% (Q4 2025), 11.93% (Q3 2025), and 3.74% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.