Growth Metrics

Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 10 consecutive years, with 0.19% as the latest value for Q4 2019.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed changed N/A to 0.19% in Q4 2019 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2019 was 0.19%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2019 number at 0.19%, changed N/A from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.19% for Q4 2019 at Cleveland-Cliffs, down from 0.27% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.65% in Q4 2015 to a low of 0.12% in Q1 2016.
  • A 4-year average of 0.3% and a median of 0.19% in 2017 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: soared 50bps in 2015, then tumbled -44bps in 2016.
  • Cleveland-Cliffs' Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.65% in 2015, then tumbled by -77bps to 0.15% in 2016, then soared by 80bps to 0.27% in 2017, then crashed by -30bps to 0.19% in 2019.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CLF's Return on Capital Employed are 0.19% (Q4 2019), 0.27% (Q2 2017), and 0.19% (Q1 2017).