Growth Metrics

Ingredion (INGR) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Ingredion filings provide 16 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 15.51% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 128.0% to 15.51% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 15.51%, a 128.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 15.99%, up 189.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 15.51% in Q4 2025 for Ingredion, up from 14.67% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 16.43% in Q4 2023 to a low of 4.75% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 14.21% (2024), compared with a mean of 12.5%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -822bps in 2021 and later surged 795bps in 2022.
  • Ingredion's Return on Capital Employed stood at 5.66% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 141bps to 13.61% in 2022, then grew by 21bps to 16.43% in 2023, then dropped by -13bps to 14.23% in 2024, then rose by 9bps to 15.51% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 15.51% (Q4 2025), 14.67% (Q3 2025), and 15.36% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.