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Lee Enterprises (LEE) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Lee Enterprises' Return on Assets history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.03% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Assets fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.03%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.03%, down 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.06%, 2.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Assets reached 0.03% in Q3 2025 per LEE's latest filing, up from 0.04% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Assets ranged from a high of 0.03% in Q3 2021 to a low of 0.05% in Q1 2025.
  • Average Return on Assets over 5 years is 0.01%, with a median of 0.0% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Assets: rose 3bps in 2021, then dropped -5bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Assets shows it stood at 0.03% in 2021, then crashed by -158bps to 0.02% in 2022, then surged by 70bps to 0.0% in 2023, then plummeted by -899bps to 0.05% in 2024, then soared by 42bps to 0.03% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LEE's Return on Assets are 0.03% (Q3 2025), 0.04% (Q2 2025), and 0.05% (Q1 2025).