Growth Metrics

Commercial Metals (CMC) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Commercial Metals (CMC) has 16 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.88% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 160.0% year-over-year to 0.88%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.88%, up 160.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.13%, 12.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.88% in Q4 2025 per CMC's latest filing, up from 1.11% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.88% in Q4 2025 and bottomed at 3.22% in Q3 2021.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 1.44%, with a median of 1.13% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: tumbled -166bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 207bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 2.9% in 2021, then soared by 64bps to 1.04% in 2022, then increased by 5bps to 0.99% in 2023, then crashed by -151bps to 2.48% in 2024, then surged by 64bps to 0.88% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.88% in Q4 2025, 1.11% in Q3 2025, and 1.14% in Q2 2025.