Growth Metrics

Lkq (LKQ) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Historic Return on Capital Employed for Lkq (LKQ) over the last 17 years, with Q3 2025 value amounting to 0.1%.

  • Lkq's Return on Capital Employed changed 0.0% to 0.1% in Q3 2025 from the same period last year, while for Sep 2025 it was 0.1%, marking a year-over-year change of 0.0%. This contributed to the annual value of 0.1% for FY2024, which is 300.0% down from last year.
  • Latest data reveals that Lkq reported Return on Capital Employed of 0.1% as of Q3 2025, which was down 0.0% from 0.1% recorded in Q2 2025.
  • Over the past 5 years, Lkq's Return on Capital Employed peaked at 0.17% during Q4 2022, and registered a low of 0.1% during Q2 2025.
  • Moreover, its 5-year median value for Return on Capital Employed was 0.12% (2023), whereas its average is 0.13%.
  • Per our database at Business Quant, Lkq's Return on Capital Employed skyrocketed by 500bps in 2021 and then crashed by -500bps in 2023.
  • Lkq's Return on Capital Employed (Quarter) stood at 0.14% in 2021, then grew by 16bps to 0.17% in 2022, then tumbled by -30bps to 0.11% in 2023, then dropped by -13bps to 0.1% in 2024, then dropped by -2bps to 0.1% in 2025.
  • Its Return on Capital Employed was 0.1% in Q3 2025, compared to 0.1% in Q2 2025 and 0.1% in Q1 2025.