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CoreCivic (CXW) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

CoreCivic has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.08% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.08% for Q4 2025, up 2.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.08% (up 2.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.01%, up 1.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.08% at CoreCivic, up from 0.07% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for CXW hit a ceiling of 0.09% in Q3 2022 and a floor of 0.03% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.07% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.07%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: decreased -4bps in 2021 and later rose 5bps in 2022.
  • CoreCivic's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.05% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 67bps to 0.09% in 2022, then crashed by -32bps to 0.06% in 2023, then fell by 0bps to 0.06% in 2024, then rose by 29bps to 0.08% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.08% (Q4 2025), 0.07% (Q3 2025), and 0.07% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.