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Mastercard (MA) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Historic Return on Capital Employed for Mastercard (MA) over the last 17 years, with Q4 2025 value amounting to 0.61%.

  • Mastercard's Return on Capital Employed rose 600.0% to 0.61% in Q4 2025 from the same period last year, while for Dec 2025 it was 0.61%, marking a year-over-year increase of 600.0%. This contributed to the annual value of 0.67% for FY2025, which is 700.0% up from last year.
  • Latest data reveals that Mastercard reported Return on Capital Employed of 0.61% as of Q4 2025, which was up 600.0% from 0.57% recorded in Q3 2025.
  • In the past 5 years, Mastercard's Return on Capital Employed registered a high of 0.61% during Q4 2025, and its lowest value of 0.36% during Q1 2021.
  • In the last 5 years, Mastercard's Return on Capital Employed had a median value of 0.53% in 2023 and averaged 0.5%.
  • In the last 5 years, Mastercard's Return on Capital Employed crashed by -1200bps in 2021 and then surged by 1100bps in 2022.
  • Mastercard's Return on Capital Employed (Quarter) stood at 0.43% in 2021, then grew by 19bps to 0.51% in 2022, then rose by 11bps to 0.56% in 2023, then dropped by -3bps to 0.55% in 2024, then rose by 11bps to 0.61% in 2025.
  • Its Return on Capital Employed stands at 0.61% for Q4 2025, versus 0.57% for Q3 2025 and 0.55% for Q2 2025.