Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Return on Capital Employed (2011 - 2025)

Lifeway Foods' Return on Capital Employed history runs 15 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 17.79% for Q4 2025.

• Quarterly Return on Capital Employed fell 58.0% year-over-year to 17.79% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 17.79% (down 58.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 19.86%, up 24.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Capital Employed was 17.79% for Q4 2025 at Lifeway Foods, up from 16.3% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 30.27% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 1.09% in Q2 2022.
• A 5-year average of 16.76% and a median of 16.3% in 2025 frame the typical range for Return on Capital Employed.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2022 — Return on Capital Employed tumbled 2888 bps — and 2023, when it jumped 2243 bps.
• Lifeway Foods' Return on Capital Employed stood at 24.54% in 2021, then slumped by 84 bps to 4.03% in 2022, then surged by 557 bps to 26.46% in 2023, then sank by 31 bps to 18.37% in 2024, then retreated by 3 bps to 17.79% in 2025.
• Business Quant data shows LWAY's Return on Capital Employed at 17.79% in Q4 2025, 16.3% in Q3 2025, and 15.4% in Q2 2025.