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Marathon Petroleum (MPC) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Marathon Petroleum's Return on Capital Employed history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.11% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 2.0% year-over-year to 0.11%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.11%, down 2.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.11%, 10.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q3 2025 was 0.11% at Marathon Petroleum, up from 0.09% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.33% in Q1 2023 and bottomed at 0.9% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 0.11% (2024), against an average of 0.04%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Capital Employed plummeted -76bps in 2022 before it soared 123bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.84% in 2021, then soared by 137bps to 0.31% in 2022, then tumbled by -30bps to 0.21% in 2023, then crashed by -46bps to 0.12% in 2024, then dropped by -7bps to 0.11% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MPC's Return on Capital Employed are 0.11% (Q3 2025), 0.09% (Q2 2025), and 0.1% (Q1 2025).