Costco Wholesale (COST) Return on Invested Capital (2010 - 2025)

Costco Wholesale (COST) has 15 years of Return on Invested Capital data on file, last reported at 0.12% in Q2 2025.

• Quarterly Return on Invested Capital rose 10.0% year-over-year to 0.12% in Q2 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through May 2025 was 0.12% (up 10.0% YoY) and the FY2024 annual result came in at 0.12%, up 1.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Invested Capital improved to 0.12% in Q2 2025, from 0.04% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.23% in Q1 2023 to a low of 0.02% in Q2 2024.
• A 5-year average of 0.07% and a median of 0.04% in 2025 frame the typical range for Return on Invested Capital.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2023 — Return on Invested Capital climbed 20 bps — and 2024, when it slipped 21 bps.
• Tracing COST's Return on Invested Capital over 5 years: stood at 0.04% in 2021, then jumped by 175 bps to 0.1% in 2022, then plunged by 65 bps to 0.04% in 2023, then declined by 27 bps to 0.03% in 2024, then surged by 358 bps to 0.12% in 2025.
• The last three Return on Invested Capital figures came in at 0.12% (Q2 2025), 0.04% (Q1 2025), and 0.03% (Q4 2024), per Business Quant data.