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Designer Brands (DBI) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Designer Brands (DBI) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 15 consecutive years, with 0.02% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 1.0% to 0.02% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Nov 2025 was 0.02%, a 1.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.02%, down 7.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.02% for Q4 2025 at Designer Brands, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.19% in Q2 2022 to a low of 0.43% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.04% and a median of 0.05% in 2024 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: crashed -50bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 59bps in 2022.
  • Designer Brands' Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.1% in 2021, then surged by 45bps to 0.15% in 2022, then plummeted by -48bps to 0.08% in 2023, then tumbled by -79bps to 0.02% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 54bps to 0.02% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for DBI's Return on Capital Employed are 0.02% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.01% (Q2 2025).