Growth Metrics

Great Elm (GEG) Return on Capital Employed (2021 - 2026)

Great Elm filings provide 5 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 5.43% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 30.0% to 5.43% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 5.43%, a 30.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 5.82%, up 22.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 5.43% in Q4 2025 for Great Elm, down from 3.42% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 1.18% in Q1 2021 to a low of 8.67% in Q2 2023.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 5.58% (2024), compared with a mean of 4.96%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -577bps in 2022 and later soared 335bps in 2025.
  • Great Elm's Return on Capital Employed stood at 1.74% in 2021, then crashed by -332bps to 7.51% in 2022, then fell by -5bps to 7.9% in 2023, then grew by 27bps to 5.73% in 2024, then increased by 5bps to 5.43% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 5.43% (Q4 2025), 3.42% (Q3 2025), and 2.41% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.