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

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

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital 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 Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.03% at Lumen Technologies, down from 0.02% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for LUMN hit a ceiling of 0.15% in Q3 2021 and a floor of 0.52% in Q1 2024.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.01% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.06%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: plummeted -49bps in 2023 and later soared 55bps in 2025.
  • Lumen Technologies' Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.1% in 2021, then crashed by -94bps to 0.01% in 2022, then crashed by -7870bps to 0.45% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 101bps to 0.01% in 2024, then crashed by -637bps to 0.03% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.03% (Q4 2025), 0.02% (Q3 2025), and 0.02% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.