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Imperial Oil (IMO) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Imperial Oil has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.12% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.12% for Q4 2025, down 6.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.12% (down 6.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.12%, down 6.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.12% at Imperial Oil, down from 0.14% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for IMO hit a ceiling of 0.28% in Q4 2022 and a floor of 0.04% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.18% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.16%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: increased 22bps in 2022 and later dropped -10bps in 2023.
  • Imperial Oil's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.09% in 2021, then surged by 198bps to 0.28% in 2022, then crashed by -36bps to 0.18% in 2023, then dropped by -2bps to 0.18% in 2024, then tumbled by -34bps to 0.12% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.12% (Q4 2025), 0.14% (Q3 2025), and 0.17% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.