Growth Metrics

e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

e.l.f. Beauty filings provide 10 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 8.14% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 552.0% to 8.14% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 8.14%, a 552.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 15.62%, down 1095.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 8.14% in Q4 2025 for e.l.f. Beauty, down from 8.73% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 24.03% in Q3 2023 to a low of 2.29% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 13.58% (2022), compared with a mean of 12.38%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -1682bps in 2021 and later surged 1351bps in 2023.
  • e.l.f. Beauty's Return on Capital Employed stood at 5.99% in 2021, then surged by 125bps to 13.5% in 2022, then soared by 67bps to 22.52% in 2023, then plummeted by -39bps to 13.66% in 2024, then tumbled by -40bps to 8.14% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 8.14% (Q4 2025), 8.73% (Q3 2025), and 14.23% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.