Daily Journal (DJCO) Return on Capital Employed (2011 - 2025)
Daily Journal posted quarterly Return on Capital Employed of 1.79% for Q4 2025, up 93.0% year-on-year from 0.93% in Q4 2024, and down 9.23% on a QoQ basis from 1.97% in Q3 2025.
Daily Journal (DJCO) has 15 years of Return on Capital Employed data on file, last reported at 1.79% in Q4 2025.
- For the quarter ending Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 93.0% year-over-year to 1.79%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 stood at 1.79% (up 93.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 2.18%, up 153.0% from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 stood at 1.79%, down from 1.97% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 2.13% in Q2 2023 and bottomed at 0.51% in Q2 2022.
- The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 0.86% (2024), against an average of 0.91%.
- The widest annual swing landed in 2021, when Return on Capital Employed jumped 1133 bps; it then sank 162 bps in 2024.
- A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.69% in 2021, then tumbled by 42 bps to 0.4% in 2022, then surged by 192 bps to 1.18% in 2023, then declined by 27 bps to 0.86% in 2024, then soared by 109 bps to 1.79% in 2025.
- The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 1.79% (Q4 2025), 1.97% (Q3 2025), and 1.29% (Q2 2025), per Business Quant data.
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | ROCE (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sap Se | 253.17 Bn | 235.20 Bn | 8.16 Bn | 40.19% |
| 2 | Salesforce | 171.07 Bn | 161.50 Bn | 8.69 Bn | 12.51% |
| 3 | Uber Technologies | 151.10 Bn | 150.06 Bn | 11.88 Bn | 12.81% |
| 4 | Shopify | 134.25 Bn | 128.50 Bn | 1.55 Bn | 12.40% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 105.72 Bn | 100.54 Bn | 2.83 Bn | 12.32% |
| 6 | Cadence Design Systems | 101.64 Bn | 100.23 Bn | 1.26 Bn | 17.43% |
| 7 | Adobe | 100.35 Bn | 93.46 Bn | 5.73 Bn | 49.21% |
| 8 | Automatic Data Processing | 90.91 Bn | 87.68 Bn | 2.87 Bn | -20.99% |
| 9 | Intuit | 88.30 Bn | 81.52 Bn | 6.77 Bn | 23.43% |
| 10 | Daily Journal | 652.05 Mn | 633.20 Mn | 19.37 Mn | 1.79% |
Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | 1.79% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 1.97% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 1.29% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 0.87% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 0.86% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 0.79% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 0.51% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 0.90% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 1.18% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 0.88% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 2.13% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 0.77% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 0.40% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 0.63% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | -0.51% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 0.41% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 0.69% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 0.72% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 1.03% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 0.92% |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 0.12% |
| Sep 30, 2020 | -0.67% |
| Jun 30, 2020 | -10.30% |
| Mar 31, 2020 | -8.27% |
| Dec 31, 2019 | -7.92% |
| Sep 30, 2019 | -8.56% |
| Jun 30, 2019 | -3.52% |
| Mar 31, 2019 | -5.44% |
| Dec 31, 2018 | -5.93% |
| Sep 30, 2018 | -6.01% |
| Jun 30, 2018 | -5.88% |
| Mar 31, 2018 | -5.81% |
| Dec 31, 2017 | -5.25% |
| Sep 30, 2017 | -5.33% |
| Jun 30, 2017 | -7.33% |
| Mar 31, 2017 | -6.41% |
| Dec 31, 2016 | -5.25% |
| Sep 30, 2016 | -4.21% |
| Jun 30, 2016 | -2.73% |
| Mar 31, 2016 | -2.21% |
| Dec 31, 2015 | -2.49% |
| Sep 30, 2015 | -2.07% |
| Jun 30, 2015 | -1.56% |
| Mar 31, 2015 | -1.03% |
| Dec 31, 2014 | -0.74% |
| Sep 30, 2014 | -1.31% |
| Jun 30, 2014 | -0.33% |
| Mar 31, 2014 | 0.11% |
| Dec 31, 2013 | 1.24% |
| Sep 30, 2013 | 2.91% |
| Jun 30, 2013 | 3.61% |
| Mar 31, 2013 | 5.33% |
| Dec 31, 2012 | 7.61% |
| Sep 30, 2012 | 9.94% |
| Jun 30, 2012 | 10.59% |
| Dec 31, 2011 | 13.75% |
| Sep 30, 2011 | 14.47% |