Century Aluminum (CENX) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)
Century Aluminum's Return on Capital Employed history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.08% for Q4 2025.
- For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 3.0% year-over-year to 0.08%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.08%, up 3.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.09%, 3.0% up from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed reached 0.08% in Q4 2025 per CENX's latest filing, down from 0.09% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.17% in Q1 2022 to a low of 0.19% in Q1 2023.
- Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.0%, with a median of 0.0% recorded in 2021.
- Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: increased 29bps in 2022, then tumbled -37bps in 2023.
- A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.07% in 2021, then crashed by -300bps to 0.13% in 2022, then soared by 118bps to 0.02% in 2023, then surged by 141bps to 0.06% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 44bps to 0.08% in 2025.
- Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CENX's Return on Capital Employed are 0.08% (Q4 2025), 0.09% (Q3 2025), and 0.09% (Q2 2025).