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Capital One Financial (COF) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Capital One Financial (COF) has disclosed Return on Equity for 17 consecutive years, with 0.03% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Equity fell 2.0% to 0.03% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.03%, a 2.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.0%, changed 0.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Equity was 0.03% for Q4 2025 at Capital One Financial, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 0.09% in Q1 2024 to a low of 0.0% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.03% and a median of 0.03% in 2025 define the central range for Return on Equity.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Equity: grew 8bps in 2023, then decreased -5bps in 2025.
  • Capital One Financial's Return on Equity stood at 0.0% in 2021, then soared by 70bps to 0.0% in 2022, then soared by 456065bps to 0.09% in 2023, then crashed by -43bps to 0.05% in 2024, then crashed by -44bps to 0.03% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for COF's Return on Equity are 0.03% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.04% (Q2 2025).