Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) has disclosed Return on Invested Capital for 16 consecutive years, with 0.49% as the latest value for Q4 2025.
- On a quarterly basis, Return on Invested Capital rose 9.0% to 0.49% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.49%, a 9.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.46%, up 2.0% from a year prior.
- Return on Invested Capital was 0.49% for Q4 2025 at Chipotle Mexican Grill, up from 0.44% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.49% in Q4 2025 to a low of 0.2% in Q1 2021.
- A 5-year average of 0.37% and a median of 0.39% in 2024 define the central range for Return on Invested Capital.
- Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: grew 17bps in 2021, then decreased -3bps in 2024.
- Chipotle Mexican Grill's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.28% in 2021, then surged by 37bps to 0.38% in 2022, then grew by 6bps to 0.4% in 2023, then grew by 1bps to 0.4% in 2024, then increased by 22bps to 0.49% in 2025.
- Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CMG's Return on Invested Capital are 0.49% (Q4 2025), 0.44% (Q3 2025), and 0.42% (Q2 2025).