Growth Metrics

Liberty Global (LBTYA) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Liberty Global filings provide 14 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 0.31% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 37.0% to 0.31% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 0.31%, a 37.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.11%, changed N/A from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 0.31% in Q1 2026 for Liberty Global, down from 0.11% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 1.71% in Q1 2022 to a low of 0.56% in Q3 2023.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.03% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.09%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: crashed -429bps in 2022 and later soared 72bps in 2025.
  • Liberty Global's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.32% in 2022, then plummeted by -216bps to 0.37% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 47bps to 0.2% in 2024, then surged by 43bps to 0.11% in 2025, then tumbled by -177bps to 0.31% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.31% (Q1 2026), 0.11% (Q4 2025), and 0.15% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.