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Kirby (KEX) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Kirby has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.02% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.02% for Q4 2025, down 6.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.02% (down 6.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.02%, down 6.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.02% at Kirby, down from 0.08% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for KEX hit a ceiling of 0.08% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 0.05% in Q4 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.03% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.02%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: dropped -6bps in 2022 and later increased 10bps in 2023.
  • Kirby's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.05% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 175bps to 0.04% in 2022, then plummeted by -69bps to 0.01% in 2023, then surged by 533bps to 0.08% in 2024, then crashed by -76bps to 0.02% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.02% (Q4 2025), 0.08% (Q3 2025), and 0.08% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.