Growth Metrics

Icon (ICLR) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Icon has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 17 years, most recently at 6.09% for Q3 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Capital Employed fell 91.0% to 6.09% in Q3 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 6.09% through Sep 2025, down 91.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 11.46% for FY2024, 406.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 6.09% for Q3 2025 at Icon, down from 7.17% in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Return on Capital Employed peaked at 18.89% in Q2 2021 and troughed at 7.13% in Q1 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 6.09% (2025), against an average of 5.59%.
  • Year-over-year, Return on Capital Employed plummeted -5589bps in 2021 and then skyrocketed 1047bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 2.77% in 2021, then surged by 125bps to 6.23% in 2022, then increased by 22bps to 7.6% in 2023, then rose by 8bps to 8.2% in 2024, then decreased by -26bps to 6.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ICLR's Return on Capital Employed are 6.09% (Q3 2025), 7.17% (Q2 2025), and 8.79% (Q1 2025).