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Deluxe (DLX) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Deluxe filings provide 16 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 11.16% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 201.0% to 11.16% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 11.16%, a 201.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 10.54%, up 230.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 11.16% in Q4 2025 for Deluxe, up from 10.74% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 11.16% in Q4 2025 to a low of 5.48% in Q3 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 7.43% (2023), compared with a mean of 7.81%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: surged 2879bps in 2021 and later plummeted -407bps in 2022.
  • Deluxe's Return on Capital Employed stood at 6.03% in 2021, then grew by 24bps to 7.48% in 2022, then decreased by -1bps to 7.43% in 2023, then grew by 23bps to 9.15% in 2024, then rose by 22bps to 11.16% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 11.16% (Q4 2025), 10.74% (Q3 2025), and 9.03% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.