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

Lifeway Foods filings provide 15 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 17.79% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 58.0% to 17.79% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 17.79%, a 58.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 19.86%, up 24.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 17.79% in Q4 2025 for Lifeway Foods, up from 16.3% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 28.4% in Q1 2024 to a low of 6.87% in Q2 2022.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 15.79% (2023), compared with a mean of 13.63%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: surged 2898bps in 2023 and later tumbled -1281bps in 2025.
  • Lifeway Foods' Return on Capital Employed stood at 4.92% in 2021, then fell by -18bps to 4.03% in 2022, then surged by 557bps to 26.46% in 2023, then plummeted by -31bps to 18.37% in 2024, then dropped by -3bps to 17.79% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 17.79% (Q4 2025), 16.3% (Q3 2025), and 15.4% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.