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Harmonic (HLIT) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Harmonic filings provide 16 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 0.34% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 1241.0% to 0.34% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.34%, a 1241.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.33%, down 1233.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 0.34% in Q4 2025 for Harmonic, down from 14.38% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 18.78% in Q2 2025 to a low of 2.83% in Q2 2024.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 6.91% (2023), compared with a mean of 7.58%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -1481bps in 2024 and later skyrocketed 2161bps in 2025.
  • Harmonic's Return on Capital Employed stood at 4.23% in 2021, then soared by 182bps to 11.92% in 2022, then tumbled by -44bps to 6.69% in 2023, then surged by 91bps to 12.76% in 2024, then plummeted by -97bps to 0.34% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.34% (Q4 2025), 14.38% (Q3 2025), and 18.78% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.