Growth Metrics

Global Payments (GPN) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Global Payments (GPN) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 15 consecutive years, with 0.04% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 1.0% to 0.04% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.04%, a 1.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.04%, down 1.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.04% for Q4 2025 at Global Payments, down from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.05% in Q1 2025 to a low of 0.01% in Q1 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 0.03% and a median of 0.03% in 2021 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: decreased -3bps in 2023, then grew 3bps in 2024.
  • Global Payments' Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.03% in 2021, then plummeted by -48bps to 0.02% in 2022, then soared by 85bps to 0.03% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 48bps to 0.05% in 2024, then dropped by -13bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for GPN's Return on Capital Employed are 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.05% (Q1 2025), and 0.05% (Q4 2024).