Growth Metrics

International Business Machines (IBM) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

International Business Machines (IBM) has 17 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.1% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 2.0% year-over-year to 0.1%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.1%, up 2.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.1%, 2.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.1% in Q4 2025 per IBM's latest filing, up from 0.09% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.19% in Q4 2022 and bottomed at 0.03% in Q3 2021.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.09%, with a median of 0.08% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: rose 10bps in 2022, then fell -11bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.09% in 2021, then surged by 109bps to 0.19% in 2022, then crashed by -55bps to 0.09% in 2023, then dropped by -6bps to 0.08% in 2024, then rose by 20bps to 0.1% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.1% in Q4 2025, 0.09% in Q3 2025, and 0.08% in Q2 2025.