Equus Total Return (EQS) Return on Capital Employed (2022 - 2025)

Equus Total Return posted quarterly Return on Capital Employed of 16.56% for Q4 2025, down 2480.0% year-on-year from 0.7% in Q4 2024, and down 231.45% on a QoQ basis from 12.6% in Q3 2025.

Equus Total Return (EQS) has 4 years of Return on Capital Employed data on file, last reported at 16.56% in Q4 2025.

  • For the quarter ending Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 2480.0% year-over-year to 16.56%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 stood at 16.56% (down 2480.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 15.59%, down 1804.0% from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 stood at 16.56%, down from 12.6% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 12.6% in Q3 2025 and bottomed at 16.56% in Q4 2025.
  • The 4-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 0.32% (2023), against an average of 1.61%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2024, when Return on Capital Employed surged 1068 bps; it then plunged 2480 bps in 2025.
  • A 4-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 9.01% in 2022, then jumped by 103 bps to 0.32% in 2023, then soared by 2514 bps to 8.24% in 2024, then plunged by 301 bps to 16.56% in 2025.
  • The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 16.56% (Q4 2025), 12.6% (Q3 2025), and 5.69% (Q1 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROCE (Qtr)
1 BlackRock 158.51 Bn 148.89 Bn - -
2 Blackstone 92.68 Bn 91.63 Bn - -
3 Kkr 84.94 Bn 132.45 Bn - -
4 Brookfield Asset Management 77.34 Bn 77.68 Bn - -
5 Apollo Global Management 76.27 Bn 95.00 Bn 5.04 Bn -
6 State Street 44.42 Bn 18.75 Bn - -
7 Ameriprise Financial 41.68 Bn 41.55 Bn 4.57 Bn -
8 Northern Trust 31.21 Bn 31.21 Bn - -
9 Ares Management 28.85 Bn 32.22 Bn - -
10 Equus Total Return 20.28 Mn 9.68 Mn 244,000.00 -16.56%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Dec 31, 2025 -16.56%
Sep 30, 2025 12.60%
Mar 31, 2025 5.69%
Dec 31, 2024 8.24%
Sep 30, 2024 2.84%
Mar 31, 2024 1.71%
Dec 31, 2023 0.32%
Sep 30, 2023 -6.87%
Jun 30, 2023 -7.66%
Mar 31, 2023 -8.98%
Sep 30, 2022 -9.01%