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Estee Lauder Companies (EL) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Estee Lauder Companies has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.18% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.18% for Q4 2025, down 10.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.18% (down 10.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.17%, up 30.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.18% at Estee Lauder Companies, up from 0.32% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for EL hit a ceiling of 0.92% in Q3 2021 and a floor of 0.32% in Q3 2025.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.22% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.29%.
  • Peak annual rise in Return on Invested Capital hit 69bps in 2021, while the deepest fall reached -512bps in 2021.
  • Estee Lauder Companies' Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.88% in 2021, then plummeted by -38bps to 0.55% in 2022, then crashed by -84bps to 0.08% in 2023, then plummeted by -197bps to 0.08% in 2024, then crashed by -124bps to 0.18% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.18% (Q4 2025), 0.32% (Q3 2025), and 0.21% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.