Growth Metrics

Citi Trends (CTRN) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Citi Trends' Return on Invested Capital history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.07% for Q1 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.07% for Q1 2025, down 6.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Feb 2025 was 0.07% (down 6.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2026 was 0.01%, up 8.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q1 2025 was 0.07% at Citi Trends, up from 0.13% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.56% in Q4 2021 to a low of 0.13% in Q4 2024.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.11% (2022), against an average of 0.13%.
  • The sharpest move saw Return on Invested Capital soared 57bps in 2021, then crashed -49bps in 2022.
  • Year by year, Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.56% in 2021, then crashed by -83bps to 0.1% in 2022, then crashed by -174bps to 0.07% in 2023, then crashed by -73bps to 0.13% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 41bps to 0.07% in 2025.
  • According to Business Quant data, Return on Invested Capital over the past three periods came in at 0.07%, 0.13%, and 0.1% for Q1 2025, Q4 2024, and Q3 2024 respectively.