Capital Southwest (CSWC) Return on Invested Capital (2021 - 2025)
Capital Southwest has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 8 years, most recently at 0.13% for Q4 2025.
- Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.13% for Q4 2025, down 1.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.13% (down 1.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.14%, down 1.0%.
- Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.13% at Capital Southwest, up from 0.13% in the prior quarter.
- Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for CSWC hit a ceiling of 0.15% in Q3 2024 and a floor of 0.02% in Q3 2021.
- Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.13% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.11%.
- Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: grew 8bps in 2023 and later decreased -2bps in 2025.
- Capital Southwest's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.06% in 2021, then rose by 26bps to 0.07% in 2022, then soared by 109bps to 0.15% in 2023, then decreased by -2bps to 0.15% in 2024, then decreased by -10bps to 0.13% in 2025.
- The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.13% (Q4 2025), 0.13% (Q3 2025), and 0.13% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.