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Meta Platforms (META) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Meta Platforms (META) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 14 consecutive years, with 0.28% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 1.0% to 0.28% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.28%, a 1.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.3%, down 2.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.28% for Q4 2025 at Meta Platforms, down from 0.31% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.32% in Q4 2021 to a low of 0.17% in Q1 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 0.27% and a median of 0.29% in 2021 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: dropped -13bps in 2022, then rose 12bps in 2024.
  • Meta Platforms' Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.32% in 2021, then crashed by -42bps to 0.19% in 2022, then surged by 31bps to 0.24% in 2023, then rose by 22bps to 0.3% in 2024, then fell by -5bps to 0.28% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for META's Return on Capital Employed are 0.28% (Q4 2025), 0.31% (Q3 2025), and 0.31% (Q2 2025).