Growth Metrics

Clorox (CLX) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Clorox has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.55% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.55% for Q4 2025, up 3.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.55% (up 3.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.52%, up 8.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.55% at Clorox, up from 0.52% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for CLX hit a ceiling of 0.56% in Q1 2025 and a floor of 0.34% in Q1 2023.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.43% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.44%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: dropped -10bps in 2022 and later rose 15bps in 2024.
  • Clorox's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.39% in 2021, then dropped by -6bps to 0.37% in 2022, then rose by 2bps to 0.38% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 40bps to 0.53% in 2024, then grew by 5bps to 0.55% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.55% (Q4 2025), 0.52% (Q3 2025), and 0.55% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.