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Conocophillips (COP) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Conocophillips has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.23% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.23% for Q4 2025, down 5.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.23% (down 5.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.24%, down 3.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.23% at Conocophillips, down from 0.25% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for COP hit a ceiling of 0.5% in Q4 2022 and a floor of 0.12% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.26% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.29%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: increased 26bps in 2022 and later plummeted -34bps in 2023.
  • Conocophillips' Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.3% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 67bps to 0.5% in 2022, then plummeted by -68bps to 0.16% in 2023, then surged by 74bps to 0.28% in 2024, then fell by -18bps to 0.23% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.23% (Q4 2025), 0.25% (Q3 2025), and 0.25% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.