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

CoreCivic has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.12% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.12% for Q4 2025, up 7.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.12% (up 7.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.01%, up 1.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.12% at CoreCivic, up from 0.1% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for CXW hit a ceiling of 0.12% in Q4 2025 and a floor of 0.46% in Q2 2021.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.05% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.01%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: tumbled -52bps in 2021 and later skyrocketed 52bps in 2022.
  • CoreCivic's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.05% in 2021, then surged by 277bps to 0.08% in 2022, then tumbled by -37bps to 0.05% in 2023, then increased by 3bps to 0.05% in 2024, then surged by 126bps to 0.12% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.12% (Q4 2025), 0.1% (Q3 2025), and 0.07% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.