Growth Metrics

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

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DateValue
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%