Growth Metrics

Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Lifeway Foods' Return on Capital Employed history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.18% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.18%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.18%, down 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.2%, 0.0% changed from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.18% in Q4 2025 per LWAY's latest filing, up from 0.16% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.28% in Q1 2024 to a low of 0.07% in Q2 2022.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.14%, with a median of 0.16% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: increased 29bps in 2023, then fell -13bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.05% in 2021, then fell by -18bps to 0.04% in 2022, then surged by 557bps to 0.26% in 2023, then crashed by -31bps to 0.18% in 2024, then decreased by -3bps to 0.18% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LWAY's Return on Capital Employed are 0.18% (Q4 2025), 0.16% (Q3 2025), and 0.15% (Q2 2025).