Growth Metrics

Shift4 Payments (FOUR-PA) Return on Capital Employed (2020 - 2026)

Shift4 Payments filings provide 6 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 4.66% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 208.0% to 4.66% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 4.66%, a 208.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 6.31%, down 240.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 4.66% in Q4 2025 for Shift4 Payments, down from 5.12% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 6.85% in Q1 2025 to a low of 6.63% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 4.85% (2023), compared with a mean of 2.86%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: skyrocketed 648bps in 2022 and later tumbled -208bps in 2025.
  • Shift4 Payments' Return on Capital Employed stood at 2.27% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 285bps to 4.21% in 2022, then increased by 18bps to 4.97% in 2023, then soared by 36bps to 6.74% in 2024, then tumbled by -31bps to 4.66% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 4.66% (Q4 2025), 5.12% (Q3 2025), and 6.1% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.