Growth Metrics

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

Corning's Return on Invested Capital history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.16% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital rose 9.0% year-over-year to 0.16%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.16%, up 9.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.16%, 9.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.16% in Q4 2025 per GLW's latest filing, up from 0.13% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.16% in Q2 2022 to a low of 0.03% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.09%, with a median of 0.08% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: skyrocketed 32bps in 2021, then fell -10bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.13% in 2021, then plummeted by -46bps to 0.07% in 2022, then fell by -21bps to 0.06% in 2023, then increased by 24bps to 0.07% in 2024, then surged by 122bps to 0.16% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for GLW's Return on Invested Capital are 0.16% (Q4 2025), 0.13% (Q3 2025), and 0.11% (Q2 2025).