Growth Metrics

Corning (GLW) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Corning (GLW) has 17 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.08% in Q2 2025.

  • For Q2 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 4.0% year-over-year to 0.08%; the TTM value through Jun 2025 reached 0.08%, up 4.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.05%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.08% in Q2 2025 per GLW's latest filing, up from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.09% in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 0.03% in Q2 2024.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.06%, with a median of 0.05% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: increased 8bps in 2021, then fell -5bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.08% in 2021, then decreased by -29bps to 0.06% in 2022, then crashed by -38bps to 0.04% in 2023, then soared by 33bps to 0.05% in 2024, then surged by 54bps to 0.08% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.08% in Q2 2025, 0.06% in Q1 2025, and 0.05% in Q4 2024.