Clearfield (CLFD) Return on Capital Employed (2011 - 2026)

Clearfield (CLFD) reported Return on Capital Employed of 0.77% for Q1 2026, up 138.0% year-over-year from 0.32% in Q1 2025, and down 63.15% quarter-over-quarter from 2.08% in Q4 2025.

Clearfield (CLFD) Return on Capital Employed (2011 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Clearfield (CLFD) has 16 years of Return on Capital Employed data on file, last reported at 0.77% in Q1 2026.

  • Return on Capital Employed for Q1 2026 came in at 0.77%, up 138.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.77% (up 138.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.77%, up 696.0% from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed declined to 0.77% in Q1 2026 per CLFD's latest filing, from 2.08% in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Return on Capital Employed peaked at 42.03% in Q3 2022 and troughed at 6.58% in Q3 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 10.57% and a median of 2.08% in 2025 frame the typical range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2023: Return on Capital Employed surged 1667 bps in 2022, then plunged 3062 bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 28.01% in 2022, then plunged by 87 bps to 3.59% in 2023, then slumped by 226 bps to 4.52% in 2024, then surged by 146 bps to 2.08% in 2025, then sank by 63 bps to 0.77% in 2026.
  • Business Quant data shows CLFD's Return on Capital Employed at 0.77% in Q1 2026, 2.08% in Q4 2025, and 2.0% in Q3 2025.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROCE (Qtr)
1 Cisco Systems 480.96 Bn 464.32 Bn 10.08 Bn 16.71%
2 Ciena 69.17 Bn 67.87 Bn 625.52 Mn 6.63%
3 Motorola Solutions 68.03 Bn 67.17 Bn 1.36 Bn 21.43%
4 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 65.63 Bn 60.79 Bn 8.25 Bn -0.78%
5 Lumentum Holdings 61.32 Bn 58.15 Bn 357.00 Mn 11.56%
6 Ubiquiti 34.34 Bn 33.97 Bn 370.71 Mn 87.31%
7 AST SpaceMobile 27.21 Bn 27.79 Bn -69.36 Mn -10.70%
8 Applied Optoelectronics 13.45 Bn 13.01 Bn 43.92 Mn -1.25%
9 Zebra Technologies 11.38 Bn 11.26 Bn 742.00 Mn 10.82%
10 Clearfield 551.39 Mn 460.33 Mn 11.16 Mn 0.77%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 0.77%
Dec 31, 2025 2.08%
Sep 30, 2025 2.00%
Jun 30, 2025 0.76%
Mar 31, 2025 -0.61%
Dec 31, 2024 -4.52%
Sep 30, 2024 -6.58%
Jun 30, 2024 -6.31%
Mar 31, 2024 -3.43%
Dec 31, 2023 3.59%
Sep 30, 2023 11.41%
Jun 30, 2023 17.83%
Mar 31, 2023 21.74%
Dec 31, 2022 28.01%
Sep 30, 2022 42.03%
Jun 30, 2022 36.84%
Mar 31, 2022 34.04%
Dec 31, 2021 31.50%
Sep 30, 2021 25.36%
Jun 30, 2021 20.97%