Growth Metrics

Federal Signal (FSS) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Federal Signal (FSS) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 14 consecutive years, with 0.19% as the latest value for Q2 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed changed N/A to 0.19% in Q2 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Jun 2025 was 0.19%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2024 number at 0.19%, up 3.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.19% for Q2 2025 at Federal Signal, roughly flat from 0.19% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.19% in Q1 2025 to a low of 0.11% in Q4 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.15% and a median of 0.14% in 2022 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: decreased -1bps in 2021, then grew 3bps in 2023.
  • Federal Signal's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.11% in 2021, then increased by 9bps to 0.12% in 2022, then rose by 27bps to 0.16% in 2023, then grew by 20bps to 0.19% in 2024, then rose by 1bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for FSS's Return on Capital Employed are 0.19% (Q2 2025), 0.19% (Q1 2025), and 0.19% (Q4 2024).