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Lumen Technologies (LUMN) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Lumen Technologies has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.03% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.03% for Q4 2025, down 4.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.03% (down 4.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.03%, down 4.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.03% at Lumen Technologies, down from 0.02% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for LUMN hit a ceiling of 0.1% in Q3 2022 and a floor of 0.35% in Q3 2023.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.0% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.05%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: tumbled -44bps in 2023 and later soared 35bps in 2025.
  • Lumen Technologies' Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.08% in 2021, then plummeted by -98bps to 0.0% in 2022, then crashed by -14643bps to 0.3% in 2023, then surged by 105bps to 0.02% in 2024, then tumbled by -278bps to 0.03% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.03% (Q4 2025), 0.02% (Q3 2025), and 0.01% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.