Cerence (CRNC) Return on Capital Employed (2019 - 2026)
Cerence posted quarterly Return on Capital Employed of 4.81% for Q1 2026, up 8208.0% year-on-year from 0.06% in Q1 2025, and down 43.41% on a QoQ basis from 8.5% in Q4 2025.
Cerence (CRNC) has 8 years of Return on Capital Employed data on file, last reported at 4.81% in Q1 2026.
- For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Return on Capital Employed rose 8208.0% year-over-year to 4.81%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 4.81% (up 8208.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.41%, up 7364.0% from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed for Q1 2026 stood at 4.81%, down from 8.5% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 8.5% in Q4 2025 and bottomed at 129.04% in Q4 2024.
- The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 3.63% (2025), against an average of 26.63%.
- The widest annual swing landed in 2024, when Return on Capital Employed slumped 13191 bps; it then surged 13754 bps in 2025.
- A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 5.71% in 2022, then jumped by 150 bps to 2.87% in 2023, then slumped by 4592 bps to 129.04% in 2024, then jumped by 107 bps to 8.5% in 2025, then tumbled by 43 bps to 4.81% in 2026.
- The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 4.81% (Q1 2026), 8.5% (Q4 2025), and 0.43% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | ROCE (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sap Se | 253.17 Bn | 235.20 Bn | 8.16 Bn | 40.19% |
| 2 | Salesforce | 171.07 Bn | 161.50 Bn | 8.69 Bn | 12.51% |
| 3 | Uber Technologies | 151.10 Bn | 150.06 Bn | 11.88 Bn | 12.81% |
| 4 | Shopify | 134.25 Bn | 128.50 Bn | 1.55 Bn | 12.40% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 105.72 Bn | 100.54 Bn | 2.83 Bn | 12.32% |
| 6 | Cadence Design Systems | 101.64 Bn | 100.23 Bn | 1.26 Bn | 17.43% |
| 7 | Adobe | 100.35 Bn | 93.46 Bn | 5.73 Bn | 49.21% |
| 8 | Automatic Data Processing | 90.91 Bn | 87.68 Bn | 2.87 Bn | -20.99% |
| 9 | Intuit | 88.30 Bn | 81.52 Bn | 6.77 Bn | 23.43% |
| 10 | Cerence | 494.35 Mn | 386.09 Mn | 47.30 Mn | 4.81% |
Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2026 | 4.81% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 8.50% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | -0.43% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | -3.63% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | -77.27% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | -129.04% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | -123.03% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | -86.02% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | -20.64% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 2.87% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | -2.35% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | -10.20% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | -7.96% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | -5.71% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | -3.21% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 0.36% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 0.29% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 1.00% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 0.66% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 2.54% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 1.28% |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 0.96% |
| Sep 30, 2020 | -0.33% |
| Jun 30, 2020 | 0.74% |
| Mar 31, 2020 | 1.25% |
| Dec 31, 2019 | 0.45% |