Growth Metrics

Hyster-Yale (HY) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Hyster-Yale's Return on Capital Employed history spans 14 years, with the latest figure at 0.02% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 26.0% year-over-year to 0.02%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.02%, down 26.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.02%, 27.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.02% in Q4 2025 per HY's latest filing, down from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.3% in Q2 2024 to a low of 0.27% in Q2 2022.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.05%, with a median of 0.04% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: dropped -30bps in 2022, then soared 47bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.17% in 2021, then surged by 64bps to 0.06% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 501bps to 0.25% in 2023, then decreased by -5bps to 0.23% in 2024, then tumbled by -109bps to 0.02% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for HY's Return on Capital Employed are 0.02% (Q4 2025), 0.05% (Q3 2025), and 0.08% (Q2 2025).