Growth Metrics

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Live Nation Entertainment filings provide 15 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 10.54% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 256.0% to 10.54% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 10.54%, a 256.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 12.21%, up 395.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 10.54% in Q4 2025 for Live Nation Entertainment, down from 10.75% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 11.92% in Q4 2023 to a low of 25.71% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 9.46% (2023), compared with a mean of 4.18%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -2834bps in 2021 and later surged 2534bps in 2022.
  • Live Nation Entertainment's Return on Capital Employed stood at 5.96% in 2021, then surged by 255bps to 9.23% in 2022, then increased by 29bps to 11.92% in 2023, then crashed by -33bps to 7.98% in 2024, then soared by 32bps to 10.54% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 10.54% (Q4 2025), 10.75% (Q3 2025), and 11.09% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.